3 Rob. 278 | La. | 1842
The defendants, tutor and co-tutor of the heirs of Elias Bass, resist the plaintiff’s claim, which is founded on a judgment obtained by the latter against the ancestor of their wards, on the allegation that an agreement was entered into by D. S. Stacy, who was employed by them to conduct the affairs of the succession, and H. B. Barbour, the plaintiff’s attorney, employed to collect the amount of the judgment, whereby payment thereof was to be effected in notes of certain banks of the State of Mississippi. They allege that they had procured a sufficient amount of them
It does not appear to us that the court erred. It is not even alleged that any of the agents employed by the plaintiff were authorized by him to receive payment in anything else than the legal currency of the United States, nor that he had knowledge of any agreement made by any of them with the defendants in relation to the collection of his claim, much less of any assent of his thereto. The defendants, therefore, cannot avail themselves of such an agreement against him. 1 Mart. N. S. 133. 12 Mart. 688.
Judgment affirmed.