This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol3 Contracts Agency", by Albert H. Putney. Also see: Popular Law-Dictionary.
As intimated above, where an agency carries with it a trust, or the exercise of some personal skill or labor, the agent cannot employ another to act in his stead. This would be true in the case of the appointment of an attorney, to conduct a law suit, or an arbitrator, to settle some dispute, and the general rule is not changed forbidding the appointment of a sub-agent, unless the appointment expressly or impliedly carries with it the right.
8 Mussey vs. Scott, 7 Cush. (Mass.), 215.
9 Warner vs. Martin, 11 How. (U.
S.), 209; Fairchild vs. King, 102 Cal., 320.
10 Achorn vs. Matthews, 38 Me.,
173; Chase vs. Ostrom, 50 Wis., 640.
11 Aetna Insurance Co. vs. Alton
City Bank, 25 I11., 321.
 
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