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8 Tenn. 261

Rutherford v. Mitchell

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided July 15, 1827

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1827-07-15

Rutherford brought an action of debt against Mitchell in the circuit court of Rhea county, upon, the following note— “Three days after date I promise to pay John Rutherford, (agent and attorney in fact of Elizabeth Shaffer, ad-ministratrix of the estate of Jacob Shaffer, deceased, late of Cocke county,) the sum of one hundred and one dollars, t o3o5 (it. being the full amount of any moneys that came to my hands from the estate of John Shaffer, deceased,) value received.

Decided 1827-07-15

Per Curiam.

¶1The action is well brought; the legal interest in the bill single, was vested in the plaintiff, and he need only declare upon the instrument according to its legal force and effect. It was not necessary that he should describe himself as agent; and had he done so, it would have been surplusage. The judgment must be reversed, and this court, proceeding to render such judgment as the circuit court ought to have done, order and adjudge that the demurrer to the declaration be overruled, and judgment be entered up for the plaintiff, for the amount of the note with legal interest thereon, from the time it was due.

¶2Judgment reversed.*

¶3 Acc. Buffum vs. Chadwick, (8 Mass. Rep. 103.)

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