The assignee may incur a personal liability to the adversary party to the contract by expressly agreeing in the contract of assignment to perform terms of the contract for which his assignor was originally liable.1 This is simply a particular example of the broader question whether one for whose benefit a contract is made but who is not a party thereto can enforce it.2

12 Home Ins. Co. v. Ry., 19 Colo. 46; 34 Pac. 281; Hopkins v. Washington County, 56 Neb. 596; 77 N. W. 53.

1 Ferguson v. McBean, 91 Cal. 63; 14 L. R. A. 65; 27 Pac. 518; Cutting Packng Co. v. Packers' Exchange, 86 Cal. 574; 21 Am. St. Rep. 63; 10 L. R. A. 369; 25 Pac. 52; Springer v. De Wolf, 194 I11. 218; 88 Am. St. Rep. 155; 56 L. R. A. 465; 62 N. E. 542.

2 Alden v. Improvement Co., 57 Neb. 67; 77 N. W. 369.

3 Springer v. De Wolf, 194 I11. 218; 88 Am. St. Rep. 155; 56 L. R. A. 465; 62 N. E. 542.

4 Consolidated Coal Co. v. Peers, 166 111. 361; 38 L. R. A. 624; 46 N. E. 1105.

5 See reasoning in Cutting Packing Co. v. Packers' Exchange, 86 Cal. 574; 21 Am. St. Rep. 63; 10 L. R. A. 369; 25 Pac. 52.

1 Bach v. Mining Co., 16 Mont. 467; 41 Pac. 75.

2 See Ch. LX.

Thus an assignee of a lease may become personally liable on its covenants,3 and the assignee of a bid at an execution sale may make himself personally liable thereon.4 The mere assignment of a contract for the sale of certain realty made by a vendee in possession who transfers possession to the assignee does not impose any personal liability upon the assignee which the original vendor can enforce.5