Rogers v. Wendell

Whether the contract upon which plaintiff’s claim rests was made with the receiver as such, or with him individually, was an open question, to be determined at the trial by a consideration of the letter signed by the receiver, and the knowledge of the plaintiff of the appointment of such receiver, and the other surrounding circumstances known and understood by the plaintiff at the time he entered into the employment. It was competent to give paroi evidence upon the question. Schmittler v. Simon, 114 N. Y. 176, 187, 21 N. E. Rep. 162; Hood v. Hallenbeck, 7 Hun, 362. By the evidence it is made…