Court Opinion

ID: 8055770
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 04:32:32.374391+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:37:50.370755
License: Public Domain

Kirkpatrick, C. J.
This action is brought upon a promissory note, purporting to be given by the Patent Cloth Manufacturing Company to William Frazee, for $113.01, dated July 30,1816, and payable, in three months, at their manufactory, signed, “ William Shotwett, agent,” *956and assigned by William Frazee to John M’Kown, the plaintiff.
Shotwell is not answerable, in his individual capacity, for this money; the agent is not answerable for the principal. The assignee must look to the company.
Judgment reversed.