Straw v. Murray, Dougal & Co.

Citations

• 182 Pa. 642
• 38 A. 576
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 855

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Privily.</p> <p>Where A agrees to sell logs to B and B subsequently agrees to sell them to C the obligation of C to pay B for the logs imposes no obligation on C to A.</p> <p>Limited partnership associations under act of 1874 — Authority of treasurer —Contracts—Checks.</p> <p>Recovery cannot be had against a'limited partnership association organized under the Act of June 2, 1874, P. L. 271, on checks issued by the treasurer of the association, where it appears that he had no authority to issue the checks; that his act was not subsequently ratified; that the effect of the issuance of the checks was to create a liability against the company new and different from the contract in pursuance of which the checks were alleged to have been given, and the cheeks, although indorsed by the payees, had never in fact been delivered to them, but had been returned to the association and destroyed.</p>