Wooley v. Chandler

Citations

• 115 Wash. 86
• 196 P. 643
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 705

Syllabus

<p>Principal and Aoent (36%)—Powers of Agent—Implied Authority—Negotiable Instruments. Where an employee, representing himself as purchaser of his employer’s. business, borrows money in the trade name of the employer and indorses and deposits the check for the loan in the same manner, the remedy of the lender, in the absence of proof that the employee had borrowing powers or that the money went to the credit or account of the firm, would be against the employee alone.</p> <p>Sales (176)—Conditional—Filing—Constructive Notice to Creditors. A conditional sale contract of a business, duly recorded in the proper office, is constructive notice of the state of the title to the business.</p> <p>Fraudulent Conveyances (14)—Sales in Bulk—Statement to Creditors—-Omitting Disputed Claim. The purchaser of a garage business, who demands and receives a statement of the actual creditors of the concern, cannot be held liable under the bulk-sales law for the omission therefrom of a disputed claim, consisting of a loan to an employee who had falsely represented himself as owner of the business.</p>