Excerpt from Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New-York, Vol. 24 And it does not alter the case that a general authority to certify checks had been conferred by the bank on the president. The question is one of agency, where the president cannot act as the agent of both parties to the contract, nor as agent in regard to a contract in which he has any interest, or to which he is a party, on the opposite side to his principal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.