Nagle v. Duncan

COLEMAN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in an action for debt. The plaintiff, an official court reporter, sued the defendant, an attorney, for the cost of a transcript of the testimony adduced in a criminal trial which the attorney had ordered for use in an appeal.

As a general rule an agent is not personally liable on contracts made for a disclosed principal, in the absence of his express agreement to be bound. However, the agent of a known principal is not precluded from binding himself personally upon a contract if the agent has substituted his own…