Culver v. Pocono Spring Water Ice Co.

Citations

• 206 Pa. 481
• 56 A. 29
• 1903 Pa. LEXIS 745

Syllabus

<p>Mechanic's lien — Agreement not to file lien — Consideration.</p> <p>An agreement by a subcontractor not to file a mechanic’s lien is a sufficient consideration to support a promise on the part of the owner to pay the amount of the subcontractor’s claim.</p> <p>Corporation — A gent— Evidence.</p> <p>Where a person has been in the habit of acting as the business agent of a corporation with its knowledge and without objection, actual authority may be inferred from his acts, and the company will be bound by them.</p> <p>A corporation will be bound by an agreement relating to a building operation made by a person assuming to be its agent, where the evidence shows that such person was a large stockholder and director of the corporation, a member of its executive committee, its secretary and treasurer, and the person named in the building contract as the representative of the company to whom reports were to be made by the building inspector, and to whom was given authority to approve or disapprove these reports, and who was apparently the general representative of the corporation.</p>