92 Ga. 291 | Ga. | 1893
These ladies, Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Williams, dealt with each other chiefly through their husbands, respectively, as their agents. The result was that the distinction between principal and agent was sometimes lost sight of. There seems to be in husbands a strong propensity, when dealing for their wives, to take part as principals in the transaction, and the record now before us furnishes evidence that these husbands had that propensity and wrought some mischief by it. Some of the controlling facts are beyond dispute. As the outcome of dealings with respect to the West Point property, Mrs. Williams put herself under obligation to convey that property to Mrs, Roberts upon the payment of a certain sum of money. The verdict in this ease finds and directs that that conveyance be made, but there is no evidence that the money was ever paid. The trans
Judgment reversed.