Porter v. Staten’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “We think the defendant is responsible, as an undisclosed principal, for those items on the account, and those only, bought for the use and benefit of the business transacted with her property, and that the burden of proof is upon the plaintiffs to show what items fall within that class.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Virden v. Commissioner