Ismert-Hincke Milling Co. v. Natchez Baking Co.

Citations

• 124 Miss. 205
• 86 So. 588

Syllabus

<p>1. Principal and Ap.knt. Agent can bind principal only within agent’s powers; duty to ascertain agent’s authority stated.</p> <p>An agent can only bind his principal when acting within the scope of his powers; and persons dealing with the agent must linow his powers and the scope and limit thereof.</p> <p>2. Evidence. Principal and agent. Stipulation that no agreements not embodied in order are binding is valid.</p> <p>A party has a right to embody a stipulation in a written contract that no agreements not therein contained shall be binding; and a person buying from an agent on written order, s'ubjeet to the approval of the principal,, must see that the writing signed contains all the agreements, where such stipulation is contained in a written order, and verbal agreements of the agent in such case cannot be proven in a suit to enforce the contract.</p>