Supreme Court of New Hampshire January 2, 1940, No. 3081. (Manchester Supply Co. v. Dearborn)

Woodbury, J.

After contrasting English law with the continental systems, Professor Mechem in his work on agency writes that “it is unquestionably the general rule of our law that an undisclosed principal, when subsequently discovered, may, at the election of the other party, if exercised within a reasonable time, be held upon all simple non-negotiable contracts made in his behalf by his duly