Thompson v Davenport

A formative but ultimately uninfluential case on the principle of undisclosed agency in which Lord Tenterden devised a rule having an extraordinary and quite inequitable effect (that an undisclosed principal is not liable to a vendor if the principal has paid the agent) which Parke B roundly dissed in the subsequent case of Heald v Kenworthy. Discussed at some length in the US case Poretta v Superior Dowel Company (transcript here).