46 Vt. 728 | Vt. | 1874
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The only question presented by the bill of exceptions is, whether the defendant bank was justified in paying
A different doctrine was held in Cassidy v. McKenzie, 4 Watts & Sergt. 282 ; but as is said in a note in 2 Kent Com. 873, “ It is substituting the rule of the civil for the rule of the common law.”
Indeed it is difficult to see how there can be an agent when there is no principal. The question whether in this case there was an interest coupled with the agency, and some other questions that were discussed in the argument, do not arise upon the exceptions as made up.
Judgment reversed, and cause remanded.