20 Johns. 421 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1823
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The goods were shipped and consigned to Smith, for the purpose of sale, at Havanna. The act of the agent is binding on the principal, so far as it is within the scope of bis authority. Not being able to effect a sale, Smith delivered the goods to the defendants to sell, and here his authority ceased; for, after such delivery, the defendants became agents and factors
But, admitting, on general principles of law, that the defendants would have a lien, it seems to me they did not intend to insist on it. The correspondence between the parties, the various instructions from the plaintiff, as to the sale, and the manner of remitting the proceeds, and the promise to render to the plaintiff an account of sales, satisfactorily show, that the defendants considered themselves accountable to the plain
Judgment for the plaintiff.