The infant may elect the other alternative and rescind the contract. This privilege is personal to himself and his representatives. The adversary party to the contract cannot avoid it.1 Thus insurance of a property of a minor is enforceable where the party taking insurance had no notice of a rule not to insure property of minors.2 So an employer of an infant cannot avoid his contract on the ground of infancy.3 So a vendee of realty cannot disaffirm a contract for the purchase thereof because the vendor is a minor.4 A stranger to the contract cannot avoid it.5 Thus, an insurance company cannot refuse to pay a policy on the ground that it was assigned to the holder by a minor, the minor having died during minority ;6 nor can a railroad company plead the infancy of the owner of property which it has destroyed.7 So a surety on a note given by an infant for a premium for an insurance policy cannot avoid the insurance policy.8 The infant's blood representatives, such as his heirs,9 or his personal representatives, such as his executor or administrator,10 or a beneficiary of insurance taken by a minor,11 may avoid his contracts. Those who have merely acquired the infant's estate by bargain and sale,12 or by purchase at a foreclosure sale,13 cannot avoid the infant's contracts with reference to such property. An infant's guardian appointed on the ground of infancy, cannot avoid a contract of the infant;14 but a guardian appointed after majority on the ground that the former minor is a spendthrift may avoid a conveyance made by the infant.15 So it has been held "that neither an infant's assignee in insolvency,16 nor his trustee,17 can avoid his contract. A parent cannot avoid a contract of employment made by the infant.18 An infant cannot avoid a contract for his employment made by his father.19

572; 6 S. W. 447; Lynch v. John-son, 109 Mich. 640; 67 X. W. 908.

45 Lymansville Co. v. Nieber, 19 R. I. 398; 36 Atl. 1133. Contra, obiter, Ridgeway v. Herbert, 150 Mo. 606; 73 Am. St. Rep. 464; 51 S. W. 1040.

46 Wheaton v. East, 5 Yerg. (Tenn.) 41; 26 Am. Dec. 251; Bige-low v. Kinney, 3 Vt. 353; 21 Am. Dec. 589.

47 Davis v. Dudey, 70 Me. 236; 35 Am. Rep. 318.

48 Lacy v. Pixler, 120 Mo. 383; 25 S. W. 206. (In this case the infant also received part of the purchase price after majority.)

49 Birch v. Linton, 78 Va. 584; 49 Am. Rep. 381.

1 Seaton v. Tohill, 11 Colo. App. 211; 53 Pac. 170; Gooden v. Rayl, 85 Ia. 592; 52 N. W. 506; Resso v.

Lehan, 96 Ia. 45; 64 N. W. 689; Arnous v. Lesassier, 10 La. 592; 29 Am. Dec. 470; Oliver v. Houdlet, 13 Mass. 237; 7 Am. Dec. 134; Patterson v. Lippincott, 47 N. J. L. 457; 54 Am. Rep. 178; 1 Atl. 506; Wil-lard v. Stone, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 22; 17 Am. Dec. 496; Hunt v. Peake, 5 Cow. (N. Y.) 475; 15 Am. Dec. 475; Hicks v. Beam, 112 N. C. 642; 34 Am. St. Rep. 521; 17 S. E. 490; Withers v. Ewing. 40 O. S. 400; Assignees of Hull v. Connolly. 3 Mc-Cord (S. C.) 6; 15 Am. Dec. 612; Warwick v. Cooper, 5 Sneed (Tenn.) 659; Stringfellow v. Early, 15 Tex. Civ. App. 597; 40 S. W. 871; Plate v. Durst 42 W. Va. 63; 32 L. R. A. 404; 24 S. E. 580; Johnson v. Insurance Co., 93 Wis. 223; 67 N. W. 416.

2 Johnson v. Insurance Co., 93 Wis. 223; 67 N. W. 416.

3 Hicks v. Beam, 112 N. C. 642; 34 Am. St. Rep. 521; 17 S. E. 490.

4 Dentler v. O'Brien, 56 Ark. 49; 19 S. W. 111.

5 Hooper v. Payne, 94 Ala. 223; 10 So. 431; La Grange College v. Anderson, 63 Ind. 367; 30 Am. Rep. 224; Cannon v. Alsbury, 1 A. K. Marsh. (Ky.) 76; 10 Am. Dec. 709; Beeler v. Bullitt, 3 A. K. Marsh. (Ky.) 280; 13 Am. Dec. 161; Thompson v. Hamilton, 12 Pick. (Mass.) 425; 23 Am. Dec. 619;

Nightingale v. Withington, 15 Mass. 272; 8 Am. Dec. 101; Hiyl v. Taylor. 125 Mo. 331; 28 S. W. 599; Mott v. Purcell, 98 Mo. 247; 11 S. W. 564; Bordentown v. Wallace, 50 N. J. L. 13; 11 Atl. 267; Grogan v. Insurance Co., 90 Hun (N. Y.) 521; Curtiss v. McDougal, 26 O. S. 66; Blankenship v. Ry. Co., 43 W. Va. 135; 27 S. E. 355.

6 Grogan v. United States, etc., Insurance Co., 90 Hun (N. Y.) 521.

7 Blankenship v. Ry. Co., 43 W. Va. 135; 27 S. E. 355.

8 Union Central Life Ins. Co. v.

Hilliard, 63 O. S. 478; 81 Am. St. Rep. 644; 53 L. R. A. 462; 59 N. E. 230.

9 Bozeman v. Browning, 31 Ark. 364; Illinois, etc., Co. v. Bonner, 75 111. 315; Gillenwater v. Campbell, 142 Ind. 529; 41 N. E. 1041; Hill v. Keyes, 10 All. (Mass.) 258; Harris v. Ross, 86 Mo. 89; 56 Am. Rep. 411; Ihley v. Padgett, 27 S. C. 300; 3 S. E. 468; Walton v. Gaines, 94 Tenn. 420; 29 S. W. 458.

10 Shropshire v. Burns, 46 Ala. 108; Vaughn v. Parr, 20 Ark. 600; Hill v. Keyes, 10 All. (Mass.) 258; Hussey v. Jewett, 9 Mass. 100; Parsons v. Hill, 8 Mo. 135; Roberts v. Wiggin, 1 N. H. 73; 8 Am. Dec. 38; Tillinghast v. Holbrook, 7 R. I. 230; Person v. Chase, 37 Vt. 647; 88 Am. Dec. 630.

11 O'Rourk v. Ins. Co., 23 R. I. 457; 91 Am. St. Rep. 643; 57 L. R. A. 496; 50 Atl. 834.

12 Curtiss v. McDougal, 26 O. S. 66.

13 Harris v. Ross, 112 Ind. 314; 13 N. E. 873.