Felder v. Mills

Citations

• 112 Miss. 322
• 73 So. 52

Syllabus

<p>Appeal and Error. Principal and agent. Individual transaction of agent.</p> <p>Where defendant gave a written order for flour to plaintiff’s agent to be charged to the agent [mt shipped to defendant, and the. order was received by plaintiff, together with a forged order directing that the flour be charged to defendant, and plaintiff, without notifying defendant that it would not ship under the first, order, shipped the flour under the forged order, and defendant received and disposed of the flour,. believing that it had been charged to the agent who owed the defendant, in such case plaintiff must suffer the loss caused by the act of its accredited, agent and cannot recover from defendant for the flour.</p>