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  "name": "WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, TO THE USE OF JESSE H. ADAMS, vs. BASSET SIKES, et. al.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Johnson ex rel. Adams v. Sikes",
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      "WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, TO THE USE OF JESSE H. ADAMS, vs. BASSET SIKES, et. al."
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        "text": "Pearson, J.\nThe legal effect of a contract for the sale and delivery of a bond, which is handed over to the purchaser without endorsement, is to constitute the purchaser an agent of the obligee to receive the money, Hoke v. Carter, 12 Ire. 825. Being the agent to receive, he of course lias authority to bring suit in the name of the principal, and do all other acts necessary for the collection of the bond, \u2014 such as giving a written power to an attorney at law to bring suit.\nIt is insisted that, under Statute Rev. Code, ch. 31, sec. 37, by which every attorney who claims to enter an appearance, may be required to produce a power or authority signed by the party, or \u201c by some person duly authorised in that behalf,\u201d is not complied with by the production of a power feigned \"W. II. Johnson, (the obligee) by Jesse II. Adams, (the purchaser) agent; because, as was contended, the agency ought to be proved by writing, and tlie authority to sign the name of the principal cannot be shown by parol. There is no case or principle to support this position. The statute requires the power to the attorney to be in writing, signed, &c., but the authority to sign the name of the principal is not required to bo in writing.\nThe decisions upon the statute of frauds settle this question. Certain contracts are made void unless put in writing and signed \u25a0 by the party to be charged therewith, or \u201c by some other person by him thereto lawfully authorised.\u201d Eev. Code, ch. 50, sec.- 11. It is settled that the authority of the person signing the name of one, as his principal, need not be in writing. Indeed, if the name is signed without even a parol authority, a subsequent ratification will make it valid within the statute. Chitty on Contracts, 71, and other text books.\nThe form of the judgment set out in the record is agreeable to law. Russell v. Saunders, 3 Jones\u2019 Rep. 432.\nThere is no error.\n' Pee CueiaM. -. Judgment affirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Howard, for plaintiffs.",
      "JDorteh, for defendants."
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    "head_matter": "WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, TO THE USE OF JESSE H. ADAMS, vs. BASSET SIKES, et. al.\nA power of attorney, signed by the purchaser of a note, in the name of the payee, is sufficient authority for an attorney at law to appear in a cause in Court, although the agent has no written authority to make the power.\nAppeal from the Fall Term, 1856, of \"Wilson Superior Court, MaNlt, J., presiding.\nWilliam II. Johnson, the plaintiff, had sold the note on which this action was brought to Jesse TI. Adams, but had not endorsed the same. On the return of the writ in this case to the County Court, the defendants\u2019 attorney required of the attorney for the plaintiff to produce a written authority to carry on this suit, or that the same be dismissed. Thereupon Mr. Howard produced a power of attorney in due form, signed \u201c W. II. Johnson by Jesse II. Adams.\u201d This was objected to by the defendants\u2019 counsel as not being properly executed, but was ruled by the Court to be sufficient, whereupon the defendants appealed to the Superior Court.\nThe same objection was urged by the defendants\u2019 counsel in the Superior Court, but was overruled by his Honor, and he gave judgment \u201cthat there was no error in the Court belowwhereupon the defendants appealed to this Court.\nHoward, for plaintiffs.\nJDorteh, for defendants."
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