Stonewall Manufacturing Co. v. Peek

Citations

• 63 Miss. 342

Syllabus

<p>1. Principad and Agent. Right of former to sue on contract of latter.</p> <p>A corporation lias the right to sue on a contract made by and in the name of its agent, if made for it.</p> <p>2. Statute oe Frauds. Eairt delivery on verbal contract. Question of fact. Section 1295, Code of 1880, construed.</p> <p>B. made an oral contract with P. for the future delivery of forty bales of cotton. Four days after this P. delivered eight bales of cotton to B. Held, that under $ 1295, Code of 1880, if the eight bales so delivered were a part of the forty bales to be delivered in pursuance of the oral contract, then the oral contract was, by such delivery, made valid. That was a question of fact to be determined by the jury.</p>