Johnson v. Putnam

Citations

• 54 Pa. Super. 281
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 55

Syllabus

<p>Principal and agent — Sale at auction — Auctioneer’s clerk.</p> <p>Where a person successfully bids on an article at an auction sale, and immediately informs the auctioneer’s clerk that he had bid on the article for a principal whom he names, and directs the clerk to charge the article to the principal named, and the clerk does so, the bidder cannot subsequently be held personally liable for the price of the article,</p>