Middleman

contracts, is a person who is employed both by the seller and purchaser of goods, or by the purchaser alone, to receive them in his possession, for the purpose of doing something in or about them; as if goods be delivered from a ship by the seller to a wharfinger, to be by him forwarded to the purchaser, who has been appointed by the latter to receive them; or if goods be sent to a packer, for and by orders of the vendee, the packer is to be considered as a middleman. The goods in both these cases will be considered in transitu, provided the purchaser has not used the wharfinger’s or the packer’s warehouse as his own, and have an ulterior place of delivery in view, 3 B. & P. 127, 469; 4 Esp. R. 82; 2 B. & P. 457; 1 Campb. 282; 1 Atk. 245; 1 H. Bl. 364; 3 East, R. 93; Whit. on Trans. 195.