Son v. Gorsuch

Citations

• 154 Pa. 413
• 26 A. 434
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 906

Syllabus

<p>Principal and agent — Pelease—Authority of agent.</p> <p>An agent, employed to solicit and send to his employer orders for goods and to collect outstanding accounts, has no authority to release one of his employer’s customers from liability for the price of goods which he had purchased, and to accept in his place the customer’s successor in business.</p> <p>In such a case where an action is brought against the customer for the price of the goods, it is proper, in the absence of evidence of either precedent authority to the agent or of subsequent ratification of his act, to direct a verdict in favor of plaintiff.</p>