Middleman

One who has been employed as an agent by a principal, and who has employed a sub-agent under him by authority of the principal, either express or implied. He is not, in general, liable for the wrongful acts of the sub-agent, the principal being alone responsible; 3 Campb. 4; 6 Term 411; 14 East 605. A person who is employed both by the seller and purchaser of goods, or by the purchaser alone, to receive them into 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; 4 Esp. 82; 2 B. & P. 457; 3 id.

127, 469; 1 Campb. 282; 1 Atk. 245; 1 H. Blackst. 364; 3 East 93.