Case ID: dc_1/html/0090-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cranch, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hooe & Harrison v. Corporation of Alexandria.
    In an action npon tlie case against a corporation aggregate for injury done by their agent, it is not necessary to prove that the agent had authority under the corporate seal — nor under an order entered on the books of the corporation.
    Action on the case for filling up and raising the street, so as to obstruct the doors and windows of the plaintiffs’ warehouse.
    The plaintiffs produced Mr. Faw, a witness to prove that he was appointed street commissioner by the corporation, and that he had orders from .them to raise and pave the street.
    
      Mr. C. Lee, for the defendants,
    objected to parol evidence of those facts, and contended that the plaintiffs ought to produce an authority to *Mr. Faw, under the corporate sea 1, or by an order entered on the books of the corporation.
   But the Court overruled the objection.

Cranch, J.,

said that, it could not be presumed that evidence of that kind was in the power of the plaintiffs; and that the jury might presume a power under seal from the facts proved.