Court Opinion

ID: 9601354
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:42:34.052799+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:57.036084
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CROCKETT, Justice
(concurring).
I concur in affirming the judgment but make this observation: I think under some circumstances a party who had been wronged by an agent for an undisclosed principal, acting within the scope of his authority, when the principal knew the facts or accepted the benefit of the transaction, could hold them jointly liable and could sue and take judgment against both the agent and the principal. But he, of course, could collect his loss only once, which would satisfy his claim.1 In this case the transaction was entirely with the defendant Stevens, independent of any connection whatsoever with the Ketchum Realty Company. It is my opinion that on that ground the trial court was justified in dismissing the action as to it.2

. Restatement (Second), Agency, § 217B (1); see id., Appendix, § 217B (collecting cases) (1958); cf. Anderson v. Salt Lake City, 79 Utah 324, 10 P.2d 927, 929 (1932).

. Littler et ux., v. Dunbar, et al., 166 Pa. Super. 271, 70 A.2d 365 (1950); 3 Am. Jur.2d § 314, p. 673; Murphy v. Barnhard, 162 Mass. 72, 80, 38 N.E. 29, 32 (1894); see 31 Pacific Digest, Principal and Agent, &wkey;158 (1962); Leigh v. Swartz, 74 Ariz. 108, 116, 245 P.2d 262, 267 (1952); cf. 3 C.J.S. Agency § 245 with id., § 244; cf. also Restatement (Second) Agency, § 198 Caveat, with id., § 199, id., § 199, illus. 1 (1958); cf. Allred v. Hinkley, 8 Utah 2d 73, 77 at n. 2, 328 P.2d 726, 728-729 (1958).