Middleman
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One who has been employed as an agent by a principal, and who has employed a subagent under him by authority of the principal, either express or implied. He is not, in general, liable for the wrongful acts of the subagent, the principal being alone responsible.
3 Campb. 4; 6 Term R. 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.