Haner v. Furuya

Citations

• 39 Wash. 122
• 81 P. 98
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 827

Syllabus

<p>Principal and Agent—Purchase op Goods by Agent—Authority —Recognition and Acquiescence — Representations op General Manager—Estoppel. Where goods were sold to one claiming to be an agent of the defendant, and the vendor twice made inquiry at defendant’s office and was referred to a certain room, supposed to be a department of defendant’s business, and was there each time assured that the goods would be paid for by defendant as agreed by the agent, the defendant, upon his return from abroad, cannot escape liability for the goods by showing that they were purchased for an incorporated company doing business in said room, in which defendant was only a stockholder, and that defendant’s general manager in charge of his business did not know that the company had been incorporated.</p>