Campbell Motor Co. v. Brewer

THOMAS, J. Though the buyer’s order declared upon appears to be a carbon copy, rather than the original, no error was committed in admitting it in evidence. Plaintiff testified that it was given to him at the time for the original. It was not necessary to account for the original of such order. For the purposes of the-suit, under the foregoing evidence, it was the original, given and accepted as such. There was no error in permitting the witness to testify that “Mr. Bond was working there” with defendant, and said he was its agent at the time the contract was entered into. Roberts & Sons v. Williams et al., 198 Ala. 290, 73 So. 502. Where the fact of agency rests in parol or is to be inferred from conduct of the principal, and there is evidence tending to show agency, the acts and declarations of the agent become admissible. This is a different ease to Eubanks v. *52 Anniston Merc. Co., 171 Ala. 488, 55 So. 98, where the husband sought to bind his wife by a declaration of his agency to purchase a stock of goods. The suit was not upon the notes for deferred payments on the car. It was a collateral inquiry as to the payee of the notes that was properly permitted by parol. It was also material .and competent to ask the witness to state whether or not said notes were presented for payment, and by whom. However, the question was not answered. The statement of the ground of refusal of defendant to comply with the contract of sale was material, and no error intervened in the statement of the witness that the contract was not executed because of the failure to agree to pay interest on the deferred payments. There was no error shown to have been committed on the trial, and the judgment is affirmed. Affirmed. ANDERSON, C. J., and SOMERVILLE and BOULDIN, JJ., concur.