24 Ga. 252 | Ga. | 1858
By the Court. delivering the opinion
All the testimony which the defendants offered was read to the jury, and the error assigned is, that a part of it was rejected when first offered.
An attorney at law has no authority, as such, to take promissory notes in payment of a debt in his hands for collection, or even receive them as collateral security. Like any other agent, he takes them on his own responsibility, and unless his client ratifies the act, he is not bound. The course ©f
There are other circumstances that might have been added by the Court, as to the strength of the memory of the witnesses, and the absence of interest in the result of the cause on the trial of which the evidence is given.. But as it does not appear that those rules applied in this case, it was perhaps best not to advert to them.
Judgment affirmed.