Robert Cooper Grier

“ It is not necessary to the validity of a contract, under the statute of frauds, that the writing disclose the principal. In the brief memoranda of these contracts usually made by brokers and factors, it is seldom done. If a party is informed that the person with whom he is dealing is merely the agent for another, and prefers to deal with the agent personally on his own credit, he will not be allowed afterwards to charge the principal ”

“ The court, on the application of the defendants' counsel, instructed the jury that, upon the above contract, Ford could not recover. The only question in the case was whether, assuming the contract to have been made for the benefit of the plaintiff, without any disclosure to the defendants of his interest, he was competent to maintain a suit in his own name. ”