Sefi Fabricators, Inc. v. Tillim

Memobandum. Plaintiff, a construction company, instituted this breach of contract action against defendant, an attorney, alleging, in substance, that because it relied on defendant’s representation that his client would pay plaintiff an amount due it upon th§ disposition of a case then pending in Federal court between defendant’s client and other parties, it had refrained *214from proceeding with an action it. had commenced and thereby suffered damage.

- Since a contract made by an attorney in behalf of his client is the act of a known principal, and imposes no personal liability on the attorney…