71 Pa. Super. 26 | Pa. Super. Ct. | 1918
Opinion by
The appellee went to a public sale for the purpose of buying a property in the Italian section of the City of
This brief statement of the facts is sufficient to establish a special agency or a limited authority in the agent for a particular purpose. Unlike a general agent, who has implied authority to do whatever is usual and proper to effect the purposes of the agency, the authority of a special agent must be strictly pursued. It has been stated that whoever deals with an agent constituted for a special purpose deals at his peril when the agent passes the precise limits of his powers: Devinney v. Reynolds, 1 W. & S. 328-333. A special agent is one who is employed to do one specific act or certain specific acts only and does not bind his employer unless his authority be strictly pursued: London Savings Fund Society v. Hagerstown Savings Bank, 36 Pa. 498-503. A special authority confers by implication all powers necessary or incident to its proper execution. That is authority to perform such acts as are indispensable to a proper execution of the thing proposed under the special agency. In the purchase of real estate by an agent specially authorized, the vendor is bound to know the extent of the agent’s authority, and when he deals with an undisclosed principal his acts may be taken to have been solely
The judgment of the court below is affirmed.