Court Opinion

ID: 7974900
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 00:58:45.872939+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:34:52.885316
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
This was an action to recover $50 paid on an automobile. Plaintiff had instructed his brother in writing to enter into a contract for its purchase, subject to plaintiff’s approval, and not to bind plaintiff. The brother selected an automobile and paid $50. Subsequently plaintiff himself called at defendant’s place of business, refused to take the automobile, and demanded his money back. The trial court ordered verdict for the plaintiff.
Defendant urges: “When plaintiff called and gave the dealer his reasons for not taking the car, .and when plaintiff then knew that his brother, as his agent, had assumed to act for him, that plaintiff did not then either claim that his brother had no such authority to act, nor did he deny the authority by which the agent had pretended to act, nor did he in any manner disaffirm such authority, but told the dealer he wanted a larger ear. * * * when a principal clothes his agent with some authority, and the agent transcends that authority, or assumes other authority, and the principal does not wish to be bound by it, some positive duty then devolves on the principal, and that is to repudiate, disavow, or disaffirm such assumed authority to act for him. Nothing like that is even shown in this case on plaintiff’s part.” The question of sufficiency of actual disaffirmance is purely one of fact. The record discloses enough uncontroverted testimony to sustain the court’s order.
Affirmed.