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2018 Georgia Code 10-6-3 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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O.C.G.A. 10-6-3 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 10-6-3

TITLE 10 COMMERCE AND TRADE

Section 6. Agency, 10-6-1 through 10-6-142.

ARTICLE 1 CREATION AND NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP

10-6-3. Who may be agent.

Any person who is of sound mind may be appointed an agent; so a principal shall be bound by the acts of his infant agent.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 2159; Code 1868, § 2155; Code 1873, § 2181; Code 1882, § 2181; Civil Code 1895, § 3001; Civil Code 1910, § 3573; Code 1933, § 4-102.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Insane persons are generally declared incompetent to be agents. Central of Ga. Ry. v. Hall, 124 Ga. 322, 52 S.E. 679, 110 Am. St. R. 170, 4 L.R.A. (n.s.) 898, 4 Ann. Cas. 128 (1905).

Bank or lending institution may act as agent for another. Heard v. Decatur Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n, 157 Ga. App. 130, 276 S.E.2d 253 (1980).

Attorney at law is agent of highest rank for client. Scroggins v. Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy (In re Kaleidoscope, Inc.), 15 Bankr. 232 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 1981), rev'd on other grounds, 25 Bankr. 729 (N.D. Ga. 1982).

Cited in Puckett v. Reese, 203 Ga. 716, 48 S.E.2d 297 (1948); Butler v. Moore, 125 Ga. App. 435, 188 S.E.2d 142 (1972); Pendley v. Jessee, 134 Ga. App. 138, 213 S.E.2d 496 (1975).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Agency, § 12 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 2A C.J.S., Agency, §§ 25, 28.

ALR.

- Infant's appointment of agent, and acts of agent thereunder, as void or voidable, 31 A.L.R. 1001.

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