The third person owes to the principal the passive duty not to interfere with the agent, or the agency, in any way that would wrong the principal in his right to the agent's services.5 A principal may therefore institute an action of law against a third person who wrongfully entices the agent away from the principal,6 or for preventing the agent from carrying out his duties as agent.7

The third person is also liable to the principal, for fraud perpetrated on the agent, while the agent is acting as the representative of the principal. The third person would also be liable for colluding or conspiring with the agent to injure the principal, or to perpetrate a fraud on him.8 The third person is likewise answerable to the principal, for injuring the agent, so as to prevent him from fulfilling the duties of his office to his principal.9

4 Taylor vs. Plummer, 3 Plummer

M. & S., 562. 5 Haskins vs. Royster, 70 N. C,

601; Walker vs. Cronin, 107

Mass., 555. 6 St. Johnsbury, etc., R. R. Co. vs.

Hunt, 55 Vt., 570; 45 Am.

Rep., 426. Panama, etc., Tel. Co. vs. India Rubber, etc., Co. vs. L. R. Ch. App., 515. 8 St. Johnsbury, etc., R. R. vs. Hunt, 55 Vt., 570.