Case Name: UNITED ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. v. BLACKTON
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1911-02
Citations: 128 N.Y.S. 92
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. v. BLACKTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 128
Pages: 92–92

Head Matter:
UNITED ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. v. BLACKTON.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
February, 1911.)
Contracts (§ 179 )—Signature—Parties.
The Quoted words in a contract signed, “J. S. B., Treasurer, O. & C_ M. C.,” will be considered descriptio personce, in absence of a showing that B. signed the contract in other than his individual capacity.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Contracts, Cent. Dig. §§ 777, 778; Dec. Dig. § 179. ]
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, First District.
Action by the United Electric Light & Power Company against J„ Stuart Blackton. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
Reversed, and new trial ordered.
Argued before SEABURY, PAGE, and BIJUR, JJ.
Beardsley & Hemmens, for appellant.
Waldo & Ball, for respondent.
For other cases see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes-

Opinion:
BIJUR, J.
Plaintiff sues to recover for electric light furnished pursuant to a contract signed by "J. Stuart Blackton, Treasurer, C. & C. M. C." As there is nothing in the contract to indicate that the defendant contracted in other than his individual capacity, the words following his name are mere descriptio personae. No evidence at all was-offered by defendant to the effect that plaintiff knew him to be representing some principal, or that he did, in fact, represent any one but. himself.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event. All concur.