Ford v. Williams
Supreme Court of the United States
This- case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland. Eord lived in New York, and brought an action against John S. Williams & Brother upon the following contract: Baltimore, October 31, Í855. Eor and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, we have this day purchased from John W. Bell, and agree to receive from him in all the month of Eebruary next, at his option,…
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This- case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland. Eord lived in New York, and brought an action against John S. Williams & Brother upon the following contract: Baltimore, October 31, Í855. Eor and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, we have this day purchased from John W. Bell, and agree to receive from him in all the month of Eebruary next, at his option, two thousand barrels Howard street super flour, we paying for the same at the rate of nine dollars per barrel, on the day…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The single question presented for our decision in this ease is, whether the principal can maintain an action on a written contract made by his agent in his own name, without disclosing the name of the principal.
It is not necessary to the validity of a contract, under the statute of frauds, that the writing disclose the principal. In the brief memoranda of these contracts usually made by brokers and factors, it is seldom done. If a party is informed that the person with whom he is dealing is merely the agent for another, and prefers to deal with the agent personally on his own credit, he will…
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