Donner v. Whitecotton

— In this action plaintiff Donner seeks to hold the defendant, James H. Whitecotton, liable for the breach of a covenant of warranty contained in a deed to plaintiff from defendant’s son, A. Tilden Whitecotton, bnt which the defendant did not sign, nor did his name appear therein in any manner The theory is that the defendant can be held liable as an undisclosed principal, even though the warranting obligation is in a deed, because our statute has abolished seals and thereby destroyed all distinctions between sealed and unsealed instruments.

The defendant, acting as attorney for a Mrs. Clara…