Warren v. Goodwyn

Citations

• 110 La. 198
• 34 So. 411
• 1903 La. LEXIS 609

Syllabus

<p>VENDOR AND PURCHASER — BREACH OP CONTRACT-AUTHORITY OP AGENT — DAMAGES.</p> <p>1. A person desirous of purchasing in entirety the interests of three joint owners of a plantation entered into a correspondence with the husband of one of the joint owners as to the terms upon which he could buy the place. Asserting that in this correspondence the party written to dealt as agent of the joint owners, under a claim of full authority to act in the premises, which was not justified by the fact, and that under this claim of authority and agency he entered into a promise of sale to him of the plantation, which the joint owners refused to carry out, he sued for damages. Held that, under the facts of the case, the demand was not well grounded.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>