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Is not admissible to introduce into a sealed instrument or

a negotiable instrument a party not named or described in

the instrument;* (2) that parol evidence is not admissible

to discharge the agent from liability on a contract made in

his name, for " to allow evidence to be given that the party

who appears on the face of the instrument to be personally

a contracting party, is not such, would be to allow parol

evidence to contradict the written agreement, which cannot

be done;"^ (3) that parol evidence is not admissible to con-

tradict the express terms of a written instrument.^ Whether

any distinction should be taken between a case where there

is no disclosure of the principal whatever, and a case where

the principal is disclosed in the negotiation but not named

in the writing, is in dispute. It is contended that in the

latter case there is clearly an election to look to the agent

alone.'^ But this is treated as a question of fact in other

jurisdictions.^

1 Ford r. Williams, 21 How. (U. S.) 287: Huntington v. Knox,7 Cush.

(Mass.) 371 ; Darrow i'. Home Produce Co., 57 Fed. Rep. 463 ; Wm.

Lindeke Laud Co. v. Levy, 76 Minn. 364, overruling Powell v. Oleson, 32

Minn. 288.

2 Byiiigton r. Simpson, 134 Mass. 169.

8 Lerned v. Johns, 9 Allen (Mass.), 419; Kingsley v. Siebrecht, 92

Me. 23.

* Post, §§ 127-128, 134-135.

5 Higgins V. Senior, 8 M. & W. 834.

В« Humble v. Hunter, 12 Q. B. 310.

7 Chandler v. Coe, 54 N. H. 561.

8 Byington v. Simpson, supra; Calder v. Dobell, L. R. 6 C. P. 486.

166 PRINCIPAL AND THIRD PAUTV.

2. Liahility of an Undisclosed Principal.

В§ 124. General rule.

Sul)ject to the exceptions hereafter enumerated, an un-

disclosed principal is liable to a third jierson with whom

his agent has dealt within the scoj)e of the agency in the

same way and to the same extent as a disclosed principal,

although the third jierson gave exclusive credit to the agent

su])posing him to be the principal.^

This does not rest u])on the doctrine of " holding out the

agent," since obviously the third party has not been misled

In that I'ospect. It rests upon the anomalous docti'ines

already explained, and has been comj)ared to the liability

of a dormant partner or of a master for a servant's torts.^

Yet the doctrines as to the extent of an agent's powers seem

to be applied to the agent for an undisclosed principal in

the same way as to an agent of a disclosed princi[)al. " Once

It is established that the defendant was the real j)rincipal,

the ordinary doctrine as to principal and agent apjilies вЂ

that the principal is liable for all the acts of the agent

which are within the authority usually confided to an agent

of that character, notwithstanding limitations, as between

the principal and the agent, put upon that authority. It is

said that it is only so where there has been a holding out

of authority — which cannot be said of a case where the

person supplying the goods knew nothing of the existence

of a principal. But I do not think so. Otherwise, in every

case of undisclosed principal, or at least in every case where

the fact of there being a principal was undisclosed, the secret

^ Thomson v. Davenport, 9 B. & C. 78; Kayton v. Barnett, 116 N. Y.

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