Seemuller v. Fuchs
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court. The case is stated in the opinion of this Court. It was tried in the Court below (Brown, C. J.,) without the intervention of a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
One Weeks, being in the possession of a piano under a contract of hiring, sent it to the warerooms of the appellants, who are auctioneers, to be sold. It was sold by them at auction without disclosing the name of the owner, and was bought by the appellee. The piano was subsequently replevied by the owner, and this suit is brought by the purchaser against the auctioneers to recover the *218money paid on aceount of the purchase. Now we take the law to be well settled, that one selling property as an agent, without disclosing the name of the principal, binds himself personally. In such cases the…
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