Case ID: misc_30/html/0441-01.html
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Author: {"author": "MacLean, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Isidor Nichols, Respondent, v. Robert Weil, Appellant.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
    February, 1900.)
    Principal and agent — Failure of agent to disclose Ms principal.
    An agent is personally liable upon a contract made for a principal not named by him, although he states to the contractor that he is not the owner of the premises where the work is to be done, but is merely the attorney for the owner.
    Appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in the Municipal Court, tenth district, borough of Manhattan,
    
      Martin & Weil, for appellant.
    Ambrose H. Purdy, for respondent.
   MacLean, J.

Upon evidence ample therefor, the learned justice below determined that the plaintiff had rendered work, labor and services and furnished material upon certain premises, under an agreement with the defendant, who testified that he had informed the plaintiff that he was not the owner, but the attorney for the owner of the premises. Inasmuch as the 'defendant did not disclose the name of his principal, his contention against personal liability was ineffectual. Argersinger v. Macnaughton, 114 N. Y. 535; Nelson v. Andrews, 19 Misc. Rep. 623.

Freedman, P. J., and Leventritt, J.; concur.

Judgment affirmed, with costs.