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Kelley." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Smith, J.\nAt the trial from which this appeal comes the court made a finding- of fact which presents the issues in the case. \"Without reciting the testimony, it may be said that the finding of fact is largely in accord with the undisputed testimony, and,\" as to any matters about which there was a conflict, is supported -by substantial testimony. We -therefore assume the facts t\u00f3 be as found by the court. ' This finding is as follows:\n\u201cDuring the season of 1925 H. J. Payne acted as agent for Leigh Kelley for the sale of the latter\u2019s potatoes, under a verbal contract, by the terms of which Payne was required to find purchasers, deliver to them the potatoes, collect the purchase price, and remit the proceeds, less his commission, to the defendant Kelley. That, pursuant toi such contract, Payne sold, among others, three cars of potatoes belonging to Kelley, Patty and Rogers to one H. W. Burrough, and took the latter\u2019s check for the sum of $1,664.68 to cover the purchase price, said check being drawn on the Bank of Lavaca and payable to \u2018H. J. Payne & Sons\u2019; that said sale was made on the sole judgment of Payne, and the identity of the purchaser was not known to Kelley and associates. That said check was indorsed by Payne, the name of Kelley and his associates not appearing thereon, and deposited in his (Payne\u2019s) checking account with plaintiff bank in the name of H. J. Payne, Agent. That Payne was acting as agent for some fifteen or twenty other growers of potatoes under similar contract, and deposited the proceeds of all sales made by him for all growers in this same checking account; that he remitted to all such growers by check drawn on said account; that Kelley and his associates had no knowledge of the fact that collection from Burrough had been made by check payable to Payne; that, in accepting such check from Payne and in crediting the amount thereof to Payne\u2019s checking account, plaintiff had no knowledge of Payne\u2019s agency for Kelley.and associates in the matter of the sale of potatoes, nor of his agency for various other potato growers; that, in so crediting such cheek to the account of Payne, plaintiff relied solely on the indorsement and credit of Payne; that, subsequently to the indorsement, deposit and crediting of the Burrough check, as aforesaid, Payne remitted to Kelley by checks drawn on said account for seven or eight cars of potatoes which he had sold for Kelley, such remittances including, among other cars, the three cars sold to Burrough; that said checks so'drawn by Payne to Kelley on the plaintiff bank were presented by Kelley to plaintiff for payment and were b3^ plaintiff paid; that thereafter the Burrough check was returned to plaintiff unpaid, resulting in an overdraft in the said account of Pa3me with plaintiff; that plaintiff made demand on Payne to make good the overdraft, \u00a1but made no demand on Kelley for nearly two months after the overdraft was created. That plaintiff did not notify Kelley or his associates that it would look to them for payment of the overdraft for said period of nearly two months; that, after demand was made on- Kelley, plaintiff accepted a payment of $100 from Burrough on said overdraft account. That the checks given by Payne to Kelley were accepted by Kelley in good faith in payment of amounts which he was entitled to receive from Pane; that said checks were presented by Kelley in good faith to plaintiff for payment, and were deliberately paid by plaintiff.\u201d\nUpon this finding of fact the court declared the law as follows:\n\u201cThat, in the transaction between plaintiff and Payne, Payne was acting for himself, and not for Kelley and associates; that Kelley and associates are not liable to plaintiff as undisclosed principals of Payne; that, in accepting Burrough\u2019s check and crediting it to Payne\u2019s checking account, and in paying the checks of Payne drawn against it, plaintiff elected to rely solely on the credit of Payne; that the return of the Burrough check unpaid merely resulted in an overdraft of Payne\u2019s account wdth plaintiff, for which overdraft plaintiff\u2019s recourse is against Payne and Burrough alone.\u201d\nUpon this finding of fact and declaration of law, judgment was rendered in favor of Kelley and his tenants, all of whom were sued by the bank for the amount . of the check drawn by Burrough in payment of the three cars of potatoes sold by Payne to Burrough belonging to Kelley and his tenants, for which cheek the bank had given Payne credit, who remitted the proceeds to Kelley by check drawn upon the account of Payne, as agent, with the plaintiff bank, and this appeal is from that judgment.\nAppellant insists, for the reversal of the judgment of the court below, that the declaration of law is not supported by the finding of fact made by the court, as it appears from the facts found by the court that Kelley and his tenants were the undisclosed principals of Payne, their agent, and received the benefits of the transaction by . which Payne procured the money from the plaintiff bank. It is insisted that, as Payne was the agent for an undisclosed principal who received the proceeds of the worthless check deposited by him, the principal should be held liable for the amount of this check as for money had and received to the account of the principal. The plaintiff bank asked findings to this effect, which the court-refused to make, and the plaintiff duly excepted to this refusal.\nPayne and Burrough were made defendants to this suit, and judgment was recovered against them for the want of an answer.\nIt appears that, before the institution of this suit, Burrough had agreed with the plaintiff bank to repay the amount of his worthless check at the rate of $100 per week, and that, pursuant to this agreement, a payment of $100 was actually made, but, as Burrough defaulted in the subsequent payments, the bank brought this suit, and has recovered judgment against both Payne and Bur-rough for the amount of the overdraft, less the hundrcddollar credit.\nAppellees insist that, the bank having elected to sue Burrough and Payne, cannot also pursue the inconsistent remedy of suing them. As we have concluded that the declaration of law above quoted is correct, we do not consider or decide whether the bank is barred from suing Kelley, having sued Kelley\u2019s agent and Burrough.\nIt will be borne in mind that Payne employed his own method of making collections for the potatoes sold for the account of Kelley and his tenants and other-potato growers, and all money so received by Payne was placed to the credit of his account as agent. But Kelley was not Payne\u2019s only principal, as all growers for whom Payne sold potatoes were also his principals, and there was no disclosure to the bank that Kelley was one of these. It was within the discretion of the bank to have accepted Burrough\u2019s check for collection for Payne\u2019s account, or to accept it as a cash deposit for that amount, and it elected to take the latter action. It was not induced to do so upon the faith of Kelley\u2019s credit or Payne\u2019s agency for Kelley, as Kelley was not known in the transaction. \u2022\nIn the case of J. M. Robinson & Co. v. Bank of Pikeville, 146 Ky. 538, 142 S. W. 1065, it was held by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky (to quote a syllabus) that, \u201cwhere a- bank receives, not for collection, but as so much money, a check, and places the amount to the credit of a customer, it assumes liability for such amount, to all persons to whom the customer may give checks.\u201d The opinion in that case quoted from the case of First Nat. Bank of Cincinnati v. Burkhardt, 100 U. S. 686, 25 L. ed. 766, as follows:\n\u201cWhen a check on itself is offered to a bank as a deposit, the bank has the option to accept or reject it, or to receive it upon such conditions as may be agreed upon. If it be rejected, there is no room for any doubt or question between the parties. If, on the other hand, the check is offered as a deposit and received as a deposit, there being no fraud and the check genuine, the parties are no less bound and concluded than in the former case. Neither can disavow or repudiate what has been done. The case is simply one of an executed contract. There are the requisite parties, the requisite consideration, and the requisite concurrence and assent of the minds of those concerned.\u201d\nNo question is made here about the good faith of the bank, or of that of Payne or Kelley. A loss has been sustained, which some innocent person must suffer, and the question is, Where must that loss fall?\nIn the case of First Nat. Bank of Detroit v. Burkham, 32 Mich. 328, the facts were that the drawees of a bill, the genuineness of which was not disputed, sought to recover from the payees the amount of the bill, which they had accepted and paid. The ground upon which the drawees sought to recover was that they had paid under a mistake of fact, which mistake consisted in their security from the drawer of the bill being fictitious, when they supposed it to be genuine and reliable. Upon these facts Judge Cooley,-speaking for the Supreme Court of Michigan, there said:\n\u201cIt is no.t claimed in this case that, if the drawees had relied upon the responsibility of the drawer, and that had failed them, they would have had any ground of recovery against the payees. But we think it would be an exceedingly unsafe doctrine in commercial law, that one who has discounted a bill in good faith, and received in its payment the strongest possible assurance that it was drawn with proper authority, should afterwards hold the moneys subject to such a showing as the drawee might be able to make as to the influences operating upon his mind to induce him to make payment. The beauty and value of the rules governing commercial paper consist in their perfect certainty and reliability; they would be worse than useless if the ultimate responsibility for such paper, as between payee and drawee, both acting in good faith, could be made to depend on the motives which influenced the latter to honor the paper.\n\u201cThe best view that can be taken of this case for the plaintiffs below is that there was a mutual mistake of fact under which the bank discounted and the drawees paid the bill. Conceding this, why should the drawees be allowed to transfer the loss, to the bank? Usually, when one of two parties equally innocent must suffer, the law leaves the loss where it has chanced to fall; but, in a case like this, if the law should assist either party on the ground of mutual mistake, it certainly should not be the drawees. This suit seeks to reverse the rule of commercial law, and transfer from the acceptor to the payee the responsibility which the former assumes by acceptance, and which the law leaves there.\n\u201cSo far we have assumed that the bank discounted the bill in good faith and for value. We think this not open to question on the facts. The amount was put to the credit of the drawer, and drawn against. The previous transactions cannot affect this unquestionable fact.\u201d\nAppellant concedes that the transaction would be' a closed incident, and that the loss would be upon the bank, where it fell, but 'for the fact that Payne was the agent of Kelley and his tenants in selling the potatoes, and it is insisted that, inasmuch as Kelley and his tenants received the benefits of the transaction, they are liable as for money had and received.\nIt does not appear, however, that the law supports this contention under the facts as found by the, court.\nIn 2 O. J., chapter \u201cAgency,\u201d after stating the proposition that the principal must ratify the whole of the agent\u2019s unauthorized act or not at all, and cannot accept its beneficial results and at the same time avoid its burdens, and that if the principal, with full knowledge of all the material facts, takes and retains the benefits of the \u00b0 unauthorized act of the agent, he thereby ratifies such \u2022 act, it is said, at \u00a7 115 of this chapter:\n\u201cNor does the general rule apply where the principal is legally entitled to what he has received without assenting to the act of the agent, and he does not otherwise .give his approval to such act, or where the benefit received by the principal is merely incidental and arises out of a credit extended by a third person to the agent individually, or where the other party to the transaction did not deal with the agent as such, but in his individual capacity.\u201d And further: \u201cThe mere fact that the principal has received or enjoyed the benefits of the unauthorized act will not amount to a ratification if he did so in ignorance of the facts. * * * A principal also has a right to receive money from an agent in payment of' a debt due from the latter, without inquiry as to the source from which it came, and, if it is in good faith so received and applied by the principal, its' subsequent retention, after he learns that it was procured through an unauthorized transaction entered into by the agent in his name, will not amount to a ratification of such transaction.\u201d\nAmong the cases cited in the note to the text quoted is that of Martin v. Hickman, 64 Ark. 217, 41 S. W. 852. In that case Hi clonan sued Martin upon an alleged contract made by Clary as agent of Martin, whereby Hickman conveyed a town lot to Martin, it being alleged that Clary agreed that Martin would assume the payment of a certain note for $147 which Hickman owed. On conflicting testimony the jury found that Clary had made the agreement, and that finding was not disturbed on the appeal. It was denied by Martin that he had authorized that action, or had ratified it, but the jury also found against Martin on that contention. In holding* that the last finding* was not sustained by the testimony, although Martin had accepted the benefits of Clary\u2019s trade, the court there said:\n\u201cIt is well settled that ratification of the unauthorized acts of one who assumes to be an agent, in order to render them binding on the principal, must have been made with the knowledge of all material facts, and that ignorance of such facts will render an alleged ratification ineffectual and invalid. Lyons v. Tams, 11 Ark. 189; Combs v. Scott, 12 Allen (Mass.) 493; 1 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law (2 ed.), 1189, and cases cited.\n\u201cA principal will not be considered as having ratified an unauthorized act of his agent merely because he receives property and avails himself of the advantages derived from such act, when he did not learn that such agent had exceeded his authority until after he had sold the property, and after the circumstances were such as to put it beyond his power to return or restore the property. Bryant v. Moore, 26 Maine 84, 45 Am. Dec. 96; Thacher v. Pray, 113 Mass. 291, Am. Rep. 480; Brown v. Wright, 58 Ark. 20, 22 S. W. 1022, 21 L. R. A. 467. In this case the evidence is uncontradicted, not only that Martin had never authorized Clary to agree for him that he would assume and pay tile- $147 sued for, but also that he had no notice of such a claim on the part of Hickman until long* after he had sold the property received from Hickman. \u2019 \u2019\nIn Case v. Hammond Packing Co., 105 Mo. App. 168, 79 S. W. 732, the facts were that King was the agent of the packing* company, with authority to sell meats and to collect and remit the sales price to the packing company. The plaintiff, Case, was engaged in the banking business, and King opened an account with him in the name of \u201cThe Hammond Packing Company- \u2014 -W. A. King,\u201d to the credit of which King deposited his individual funds and his collections for the packing -company, and against which he checked in his individual business. Prom time to time King drew checks on this account in his individual name, which he sent to the packing company as proceeds of meats sold by him. This mode of business continued for several months, until King finally drew two checks, aggregating $1,581, which overdrew the account that amount. , The bank demanded that the packing company make the overdraft good, upon the theory that it had received the benefit thereof from its agent. In other words, the suit was for money had and received, as in the instant ease. The packing company refused to pay, upon the ground that it had never authorized the opening of the account, and did not know that it had been opened until the bank demanded payment of the overdraft. The testimony showed that the agent King did not have any authority to represent the packing company, except to sell its meats and -collect and remit the proceeds of such sales.\nSo here, there was the same limitation upon Payne\u2019s authority, and the cases are therefore identical, except that, in the packing company case, the bank knew who the agent\u2019s principal was, a fact unknown to the appellant bank in the instant case, and except also that Payne did not have an account with appellant bank in his principal\u2019s name, as did the agent King in the packing company case.\nIn holding that the packing company was not liable for this overdraft, although it had received the proceeds of the checks which produced it,- the court said: \u201cSuch agency (as King had) did not authorize him to open a bank account for defendant (the packing company), nor to borrow money for it. Nor did such agency confer an apparent authority on King, justifying plaintiff (the bank) in believing r\u00e9al authority existed.\u201d It was there further said:\n\u201cBut it is said that defendant received King\u2019s checks on the plaintiff bank, and must have known of the account. The cheeks were notice.to defendant that King had an account with plaintiff, but not that it had. Indeed, King\u2019s individual checks could not lead one to suppose they were drawn on his principal\u2019s account, for such checks would not authorize payment out of the principal\u2019s money. Ihl v. Bank, 26 Mo. App. 129. There was nothing shown from which it can be inferred that defendant ratified King\u2019s act in overdrawing. As has been already stated, the defendant did not know that King had opened an account in its name. It did not know that the money which it received was an overdraft on such account. It received and accepted the money as money due from King, which he had collected from customers. Money is a current fund, which any one, without notice, has a right to.receive in good faith in payment of a debt, without inquiry into the source from which it comes; and the person so receiving it cannot be compelled to restore it to him who was the true owner. Stephens v. Board of Education, 79 N. Y. 183, 35 Am. Rep. 511; Hatch v. Bank, 147 N. Y. 184, 41 N. E. 403; Justh v. Bank, 56 N. Y. 478; Smith v. Bank, 107 Iowa 620, 78 N. W. 238. But it is said by plaintiff that defendant received and kept the money represented by the overdraft. That fact does not create a liability against defendant. If money due a principal from his agent is obtained by such agent by the unauthorized use of the principal\u2019s name, and'paid over to the principal, who receives it in good faith, without notice, he is not liable to the party from whom the agent got the money. The fact that he keeps the money after being informed of how the agent obtained it is not a ratification. Thacher v. Pray, 113 Mass. 291, 18 Am. Rep. 480; Baldwin v. Burrows, 47 N. Y. 212; Gulick v. Grover, 33 N. J. Law 463, 97 Am. Dec. 728; Bohart v. Oberne, 36 Kan. 284, 13 Pac. 388; Pennsylvania Co. v. Dandridge, 8 Gill & J. 323, 29 Am. Dec. 543; Lime Rock Bank v. Plimpton, 17 Pick. 159, 28 Am. Dec. 286.\u201d\nWe are not required to approve all that was there said to find authority in that case for denying appellant bank the right to recover from Kelley.\nAnother case very similar in principle to the instant case is that of First Nat. Bank of Owenton v. Sidebottom, 147 Ky. 690, 145 S. W. 404. We do not review the decision of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky in that case, as it would unduly lengthen this opinion to do so, but we quote a syllabus which reads as follows:\n\u201cA deputy sheriff, having an account with a bank, drew his checks on other banks payable to it, and gave to the sheriff two checks equal in amount to the checks so drawn, and, on presentation by the sheriff\u2019s bank, they were paid before one of the cheeks drawn by the deputy was returned not paid for want of funds. Held, in the absence of any agreement on the -part of the sheriff, that, if the checks drawn -by his deputy were not paid he would refund to the bank the money paid to him, the bank could not recover; the fact that the drawer of the checks was a deputy of the defendant not conferring any greater rights on the bank.\u201d\nAs bearing upon this question and supporting the view that a bank, which permits an unauthorized agent to overdraw his account, cannot recover the amount of the overdraft from the principal, upon a mere showing that the principal received the proceeds of the overdraft, where, when demand for restitution is made, the principal cannot be placed in statu quo, see the following cases: Merchants\u2019 Nat. Bank of Peoria v. Nichols & Shepard Co., 223 Ill. 41, 7. L. R. A. (N. S.) 752, 79 N. E. 38; Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. v. Beaumont, etc. (Tes. Civ. App.), 218 S. W. 638; Sanborn v. First Nat. Bank, 115 Mo. App. 50, 90 S. W. 1033.\nHere Payne employed his own means of collecting and remitting the proceeds of potatoes sold by him. Kelley had no control over Payne\u2019s account with the bank, and could only credit Payne\u2019s account with the Checks drawn in his favor against it. Kelley was not advised of the overdraft until two months thereafter, during which time the potatoes had, no doubt, been eaten or planted or otherwise consumed, and the status quo could not be restored.\nSome innocent person must suffer, and, as the bank\u2019s eleotion to treat as a cash deposit the check from Payne by Burrough, instead of receiving it for collection, as it might have done, caused the loss to fall upon it, the loss must remain there. This was the judgment of the court below, and it will therefore be affirmed.", "type": "majority", "author": "Smith, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Warner, Hardin & Warner, for appellant.", "Daily & Woods, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Arkansas Valley Bank v. Kelley.\nOpinion delivered February 27, 1928.\nWarner, Hardin & Warner, for appellant.\nDaily & Woods, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0387-01", "first_page_order": 405, "last_page_order": 416 }