Case Name: Miles versus Cook
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1854
Citations: 1 Grant 58
Docket Number: 
Parties: Miles versus Cook.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Grant)
Volume: 1
Pages: 58–59

Head Matter:
Miles versus Cook.
1. An agent need not be constituted by writing for any purpose except where he is to convey an estate in land for a longer period than three years.
2. It needs no writing to constitute an agent to make an entry upon land, so as to toll the Statutes of Limitation, and such agency may be proved orally.
3. An agent, to make an entry upon land, so as to toll the Statutes of Limitation, is competent to prove Ms own agency.
Error, to the Court of Common Pleas of Olarion county.
The principles decided in this case are so clearly stated by the court, that a statement of facts is unnecessary.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, J.
— There is no statute that directly or indirectly requires that an agent shall be constituted by writing, except when he is to convey an estate in land for a longer period than three years. It is plain enough, therefore, that it needs no writing to constitute an agent to make an entry upon land so as to toll the Statutes of Limitation, and of course it may be proved orally. It is one of the most common of all events to call the agent to give evidence of his authority, and we can imagine no reason for regarding this sort of an agent as incompetent to testify to such a fact. 3 Watts, 428. 10 S. & R. 251.
Judgment affirmed.