8 Mass. 103
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 15, 1811
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1811-09-15
The defendant was attached “ to answer to Arnold Buffum, of Providence, in the county of Providence, Sfc., agent of the Providence Hat-manufacturing Company, in a plea of the case for that the said I. C., at, &c., on, &c., by his note of hand of that date, for value received of the Providence Hat-manufacturing Company, promised the said A. B., as agent thereof, to pay to him or order the sum of, &c., to the damage of the said A. B., in his said capacity,” &c After a verdict…
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Decided 1811-09-15
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1889
12 state decisions
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¶1The cases are different. The contract in the case cited was directly with the corporation. In the case at bar the contract was with the agent personally, and his adding his character to his name in the writ and declaration amounts only to a description of his person. Let the defendant be called.
¶2Defendant defaulted.