Allen Gravel Co. v. Nix

Citations

• 129 Miss. 809
• 93 So. 244

Syllabus

<p>1. CORPORATIONS. General manager has general charge of corporate business; implied poicers coextensive u:ith general scope of business; general manager can do any acts which directors could authorise or ratify unless special limitation is known.</p> <p>Tlie general manager of a corporation has general charge and direction of the company for the carrying on of the business for which it was chartered;. his implied powers are coextensive with the general scope of the business of the company. Prima facie he has the power to do any .act which the board of directors could authorize or ratify, unless any special limitation put upon his power is brought to the notice of those dealing with the company.</p> <p>2. Corporations. General manager has apparent authority to employ laborers by year unless otherwise limited by by-laws of which laborers have notice.</p> <p>The general manager of. a corporation engaged in mining gravel having the management and control of such mining- business, including the employment and discharge of laborers used in connection with such business, has the apparent authority to employ such laborers by the year, and, unless, in dealing with the company they have notice that its by-laws limit the general manager’s authority to employing labor for not longer than by the month, the corporation is bound by his contract employing such labor by the year.</p>