Gregory v. Loose

Citations

• 19 Wash. 599
• 54 P. 33
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 431

Syllabus

<p>PRINCIPAL AND AGENT — IMPLIED AGENCY — EVIDENCE — HEARSAY.</p> <p>The building of a logging road is not within the scope of authority delegated to an agent, who has been authorized to operate a shingle mill, contract for shingle bolts and conduct preliminary negotiations for rights of way and for the purchase of timber.</p> <p>Declarations of one assuming to be an agent as to what his principal said or concluded to do respecting a matter in controversy are inadmissible on the ground of being hearsay evidence.</p> <p>The acts and declarations of an agent are not competent evidence in proof of agency.</p>