Special Sections, Inc. v. Rappaport Co.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, Sullivan County, whieh granted reargument of plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment against both defendants and, upon reargument, vacated a previous order whieh had granted summary judgment against the individual defendant, Charles Rappaport. An agent who contracts with a third party without disclosing both the fact of his agency and the identity of the person for whom he acts is personally liable on the contract (2 N. Y. Jur., Agency, § 311; 3 C. J. S., Agency, § 216). It is not sufficient merely that the third party had means of…