Snedicor v. Davis

Citations

• 17 Ala. 472

Syllabus

<p>1. A deputy clerk In this State is liable to his principal alone for a default committed, whilst acting within the scope of his duties and in the name of the principal.</p> <p>2. The cause of action for the negligent or unskilful performance of his duty by a deputy clerk, whereby his principal is exposed to a suit for damages, accrues at the time the act complained of is done, and not when the consequent injury is developed. Whether if the suit be instituted before the actual injury is ascertained, the recovery should be for the probable prospective, or only nofninal damages — Queue?</p> <p>3. The lapse of six years from the time of the default, or at least from its discovery, is a complete bar, whatever (he form of action, although the actual damage to the principal may not have been then ascertained.</p>