12 Ga. 205 | Ga. | 1852
£y the Court.
delivering the opinion.
An agent, constituted for a particular purpose, and under a limited and circumscribed power, cannot bind his principal by any act in which he exceeds his authority; for that would be to say, that one man may bind another against his consent. Per Mr. Justice Butter in Penn vs. Harrison, 3 Term Rep. 762. Here the plaintiffs retained the cotton from July, 1847, until March, 1848, before it was sold, and the question, whether they retained it an unreasonable length of time, was properly submit
We find no error in this record, either as it regards the instructions of the- Court to the Jury on the law of the case, or in the verdict of the Jury.
Let the judgment of the Court below be affirmed.