Court Opinion

ID: 9582309
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:25:01.207963+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:38.181037
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
After studying the authorities cited by counsel for the defendants on motion for rehearing, we wish to state:
(1) Agency can not be established by declarations of the agent alone. See Griffith v. Federal Land Bank of Columbia, 190 Ga. 578, 580 (10 S. E. 2d 71).
(2) Agency can not be established by general reputation in the community as to such agency, but the conduct of the principal and agent may be used to rebut the denial of the existence of agency for the purpose of impeaching the testimony and contentions of the principal and agent as to the existence of the agency or the scope of the powers of the agent. The court, in the trial of the case, should instruct the jury to this effect.