70 Miss. 351
Decided October 15, 1892
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1892-10-15
Prom the circuit court of the second district, of Panola, county. IIon. Eusene Johnson, Judge. The record shows that appellant, Andrew Gilchrist, is a non-resident of this state, engaged in banking. He owns a. large body of wild land in this state, and is represented here by one P. G. Nelson, who resides at Jackson, Miss., who is his agent to look after said land, and by his attorneys, Nu-gent & McWillie, who also reside at Jackson, Miss.
Decided 1892-10-15
¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2"Whatever may have been the authority of Nelson to represent Gilchrist as to his lands in Mississippi, there is nothing disclosed to suggest that he was authorized to biiid him by a contract to purchase 60,000 staves of Pearson, and sell them to Leonard, and the instruction to the jury to find for the defendant should have been given.
¶3Reversed,. and remanded for a new trial.