Shelby v. Offutt

Citations

• 51 Miss. 128

Syllabus

<p>1. Abandoned Lands: Agency. Contract with federal authorities during the war.</p> <p>Where the owner of lands removed to Texas during the late war, and left an agent to supervise and carry on his farm, such agency would not be terminated by the federal occupancy of the territory in which the farm was situated; and a contract entered into between such agent and the federal authorities, to carry on the farm and work freedmen thereon, would not terminate the agency, or give the agent any power to defeat the interest of his principal by claiming the proceeds of the farm, but what he did on the farm, he did as agent, and the products of the farm belongs to the principal.</p> <p>2. Same : Instructions to the jury.</p> <p>Instructions asked, that are based upon a state of facts in the case, should not be modified by the court, unless there are facts in the case that will sustain the proposition submitted by the modifications.</p>