Aldridge v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 1992
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Zimmer v. Fryer · Higginbotham v. City of Baton Rouge · Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. v. Heiderich · In re the Succession of Kugler · Jones v. Jones
Most-quoted passages
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“The pivotal point in all such cases is whether the person making the payment has authority to do so, because unless such authority is present, the acknowledgment of the obligation which the payment ordinarily implies is lacking. If such authority is present, the agent's acts become the acts of the principal and are fully binding upon him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when the obligation is extinguished by prescription, the mortgage falls with it; becomes dead, and ... a subsequent acknowledgment of the obligation or waiver of prescription thereon does not revive or reinstate the mortgage....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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