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· 5/10/1880

Whitney v. Wyman

Citations

  • 101 U.S. 392
  • 25 L. Ed. 1050
  • 1879 U.S. LEXIS 1931

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that individual directors were not liable individually on preformation contract later ratified by corporation
  • “The agreement thus made could not be afterwards changed by either of the parties without the consent of the other.”
  • “Where the principal is disclosed, and the agent is known to be acting as such, the latter cannot be made personally hable unless he agreed to be so.”

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Judges: Swayne

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