It may be broadly stated that any person may be the agent of another, unless he be a lunatic, an idiot or a child of tender years.8 Infants,9 married women, persons under the ban of the law, slaves, and aliens, have all been held competent to represent another, where in the same case, they would not have had the capacity to properly act for themselves. The undoubted reason for this, is that one may carry out the directions of another, where he would be incompetent, to conceive, or direct the carrying out of the work for himself. The nature of the work, would oftentimes control the degree of competency required, where the agent is an infant. An infant acting for another is perhaps more properly called a servant, rather than an agent.

7 Protection Life Ins. Co. vs. Foote, 79 HI., 361; Williams vs. Detroit Mills Co., 31 Mich., 275.

8 Lyon vs. Kent, 45 Ala., 656.

9 Bennett vs. Gillett, 3 Minn., 423; Swartevant vs. Evans, 37 I11., 442.