Court Opinion

ID: 6993997
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 03:30:00.697509+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:09:42.537271
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Waterman. It is manifest that Willie Mc-Neill could not be bound by an agreement Malcolm McNeill may have made without authority from, or ratification by her. Appellant failed to show that appellee ever authorized or ratified any arrangement as to the indebtedness to her, represented by the paper upon which this suit was brought. The understanding which A. C., B. F., or Malcolm Mc-Neill may have had about the payment or transfer of this indebtedness, or the conveyance of any other property, is immaterial, unless appellee was a party to such understand- > ing. We do not think that the evidence offered by appellant, which the court refused to admit, was, as offered, admissible. Its pertinency depended entirely upon showing that appellee had authorized the novation claimed, or had ratified the same. The evidence, so far from establishing this, was to the contrary. If Benjamin McNeill has, under the belief that thereby he was acquiring the ownership of this indebtedness, been deluded into making a conveyance of valuable real property to Cuthbert Laing, and the latter has without consideration conveyed the same to appellee, Benjamin McNeill may be entitled to have such property reconveyed to him, but we fail to see how these facts, if such they be, constitute a defense by the Argyle Company to this action brought upon its written acknowledgment of indebtedness to Willie Mc-Neill. The bill of exceptions is defective, it not containing all the evidence. A bill in chancery appears to have been introduced which is not shown. The judgment of the Superior Court is affirmed. Judgment affirmed.