Thomas Roberts & Co. v. Andrews & Co.

Citations

• 15 Pa. Super. 311
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 346

Syllabus

<p>Principal and agent — Factor's commissions — Contract—Revocation of naked authority.</p> <p>Where a contract confers simply a naked authority to sell upon commission, such authority is revocable before any steps have been taken to carry it into execution and prior to the consignment of the goods.</p> <p>Judgment is properly refused where the affidavit discloses simply a case of withdrawal from a factor of his power to sell before he had taken any steps to execute that power or acquired any interest in the goods with regard to which the power was to be exercised, or been involved in any expense or liability, and while the goods still remained in possession of the principal.</p>