Case ID: misc_124/html/0547-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Held, Appellant, v. Bryan L. Kennelly, Inc., Respondent, and James S. Gross, Defendant.
    Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
    February 27, 1925.
    Principal and agent — non-disclosure of principal — agent liable where he deals in his own name without disclosing name of principal.
    An agent dealing in Ms own name is personally liable upon a contract where he fails to disclose the name of Ms principal. The liability is not changed though he be known to the other party as one who is usually employed in selling property as the agent for others.
    Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of the City Court of the City of New York entered in favor of the defendant Bryan L. Kennelly,' Inc.
    
      Gustave Frey, for the appellant.
    
      Bertram L. Kraus, for the respondent.
   Per Curiam:

A vendor or purchaser dealing in his own name, without disclosing the name of his principal, is personally bound by his contract, and it makes no difference that he is known to the other party to be an auctioneer, or broker, who is usually employed in selling property as the agent for others. (Meyer v. Redmond, 205 N. Y. 478, 483; DeRemer v. Brown, 165 id. 410, 419; 1 Williston Cont. 543.)

Judgment modified by striking out so much thereof as adjudges that the complaint be dismissed as against the defendant Bryan L. Kennelly, Inc., and by adjudging that plaintiff recover of the defendants James S. Gross and Bryan L. Kennelly, Inc., the sum of $2,125, with costs, and as so modified affirmed, with costs to appellant against respondent.

All concur; present, Guy, McCook and Proskauer, JJ.