Summary

In Leavitt v. Morrow, supra, a case cited in Robinson v. St. Johnsbury L.C.R.R. Co., supra, occurs this sentence: "It may be laid down as incontestable, as a general thing, that where one man is indebted to another and a third person steps in and pays the debt, in the absence of all circumstances tending to show the contrary, the rational inference would be that the act done, being for the debtor's benefit, was done with his consent, or, if without his knowledge at the time, that it would, as a matter of course, be ratified by him afterward.