Herrman Bros. v. Watson

Citations

• 111 Miss. 234
• 71 So. 375

Syllabus

<p>Principal and Aoent. Undisclosed agency. Liahility of agent.</p> <p>Under Code 1906, section 4784, providing that if a person shall transact business as a trader with the addition of the words agent, factor, and company, or & Co. or like words, and fail to-disclose the name of his principal or partner by a sign in letters-easy to be read, placed conspicuously at the house where such business is transacted, or if any person shall transact business in his own name without such addition, all the property, stock, money, and choses in action acquired in the business shall be-treated in favor of his creditors as his property, when a father who was the owner of a store house in which a mercantile business was conducted, purchased goods and placed his son in charge and no sign was placed on the store house, and an account was-carried at the bank under the name of the son as manager; and checks were drawn by the son on such account as manager, in such cáse, as the son ordered goods in his own name as manager, and transacted the business generally, the property connected with such business was subject to the son’s debts.</p>