Himes v. Herr

Citations

• 3 Pa. Super. 124
• 1896 Pa. Super. LEXIS 115

Syllabus

<p>Principal and agent — Extent of agent's power, how shown.</p> <p>The extent of an agent’s powers depends upon the authority under which he acts. This may be shown by his written instructions or his course of dealing, and applies to cases where an agent has been allowed to exercise enlarged powers from time to time and his acts therein have been ratified by his principal.</p> <p>Principal and agent — Satisfaction of judgment by attorney at law.</p> <p>Where an attorney at law, who has loaned money for his client on a judgment and has been permitted to act as her agent and attorney in this and other matters, receives the principal of the debt and enters satisfaction on the judgment, but misappropriates the money, a rule to strike off the satisfaction should not be granted where the client had authorized such a course of business to be established and continued as to warrant a man of ordinary caution in believing that the attorney was her trusted representative.</p>