Boyce v. Campbell

Citations

• 84 Wash. 64
• 146 P. 158
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 751

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Representation—Agents—Contracts —Authority op Agent! A trust company authorized a director to incur certain expenses in the alteration of certain portions of its building, and is liable tberefor, where it appears that, at a meeting of the board, the director was requested to present plans and an estimate of the cost, and when this was done about two weeks later, at another meeting, he was • authorized to go ahead, the trust company assuming the expense, which it approved and paid in excess of the estimates, and the only action taken with reference to a demand for the balance was to postpone action until a day certain, no denial of liability being made prior to the appointment of a receiver; and it is immaterial that the director had a lease of other portions of the building for hotel purposes, the alterations in question relating to portions of the building not leased to him.</p>