Gilchrist v. Pearson

Citations

• 70 Miss. 351

Syllabus

<p>Agency. As to lands. Contract of sale of personalty. Authority.</p> <p>A non-resident banker having an agent in this state to look after his wild. land here, with power to negotiate sales thereof, subject to approval, pay taxes, sue for trespass, and otherwise exercise general supervision as to the land, is not bound by á contract made by such agent, in his name, to buy 60,000 staves, and sell them to another. So held, although the contract grew out of' a transaction in which the agent had, by replevin, seized 23,000 of the staves as having been cut on the land of his principal, and which the principal had authorized him to sell.</p>