Case ID: tenn_24/html/0037-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Boyd vs. Dodson.
    An agent cannot bind his principal by writing under seal, unless he act by virtue of an authority under seal, and no previous parol assent or subsequent parol adoption will sustain the act of the agent.
    Debt on a bill single. Plea, non est factum.
    
    Defendant proved, that Oliyer Dodson signed his name to the bill single.
    The plaintiff proved, that defendant had given verbal authority to Oliver Dodson to' sign his name. He also proved, that plaintiff said to defendant, “I have sued you:” to which defendant replied, “Yes, you sued me, and the note is a just one; and if you had called on me for the money by instalments I would have paid you, but as you have sued me I will not.”
    Verdict and judgment for defendant, and an appéal.
    
      Vandyke, for Boyd.
    
      Gaut, for Dodson.
   Per curiam.

Let the judgment be affirmed, on the authority of cases adjudged. 1 Hum. 113; 1 Yerger, 26, 31.