Court Opinion

ID: 9827559
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:39:47.511864+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:33.325682
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
[4, 5] Agency may be proven where the principal has acquiesced in, recognized, or adopted similar acts done on other occasions by the alleged agent, and so closely connected as to constitute a course of dealing. Mechem on Agency, vol. 1 (2d Ed.) § 263. Circumstantial evidence is competent to establish the fact or extent of an agency as any other fact. Sargent v. Barnes, 159 S. W. 366. The lease of Mrs. Jackson’s land by her husband, to Walls, for the year 1912, was under an express contract; the lease for 1913 is based upon implied contract, on account of the tenant, Walls, holding over. Bateman & Bro. v. Maddox, 86 Tex. 554, 26 S. W. 51. All the previous rent money was paid by Walls for the land to the husband, and that which was deposited in the bank was to the credit of the husband, and checked out by him. The husband testified that in regard to all the transactions connected with the farm, the wife had never objected, nor to his management of said farm. We think the record sustains the contract of tenancy made by the husband for the year 1914.
The issue raised in the second ground of appellant’s motion for rehearing was not raised upon the trial of this cause, nor upon the original submission of this case in this court.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.