Case ID: tex-l-r_3/html/0315-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Willson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EDWARDS et al v. EZELL & SUGGS.
    Appeal from Milam county.
    
      Principal and Agent — Contract—Liability.—When an agenfchas due authority to make a written contract, not under seal, and he makes it in his own name, whether he describes himself to be an agent or not, or whether the principal be known or unknown he, the agent, will be liable to be sued, and the principal will also be liable to be sued thereon, unless it is clear that the credit was given exclusively to the agent, and it is the intention of both parties that no resort shall in any event be against the principal. Reversed and remanded.
   Opinion by

Willson, J.