Phillips v. Colfax Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring “full knowledge of the facts” for ratification of an unauthorized contract
• president of debtor corporation presumed to know status of corporate debt
• “[Ratification is a question of fact” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[I]t must be remembered that the matter at bar is an action at law. It is not a suit in equity calling for a trial de novo on appeal with the incident duty to make our own independent appraisal of the relative weight of testimony adduced”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McEwen v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1974-11-15· cited 179×
• Ireland v. Mitchell
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1961-03-01· cited 40×
• Federal Deposit Insurance v. Smith
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1999-04-22· cited 34×
• Hicklin v. Anders
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1954-04-14· cited 30×
• Bedortha v. Sunridge Land Co., Inc.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1991-12-12· cited 23×
• Godell v. Johnson
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1966-09-28· cited 20×
• Svacek v. Shelley
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1961-02-01· cited 17×
• Crewse v. Munroe
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1960-10-05· cited 13×
• Industrial Leasing Corp. v. Miami Ice MacHine Co.
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1994-01-19· cited 13×
• Shrock v. Goodell
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1974-11-21· cited 13×
• Synectic Ventures I, LLC v. EVI Corp.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2012-12-20· cited 11×
• Michel v. ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1976-04-29· cited 7×
• Carey v. Hays
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1967-11-22· cited 7×
• Woodtek, Inc. v. Musulin
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1972-11-30· cited 5×
• Tri-Met, Inc. v. Odighizuwa
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1992-03-18· cited 4×
• Larkin v. Appleton
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1976-04-15· cited 4×
• Kittleson v. Tennant Agency, Inc.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1966-02-16· cited 3×
• Larson v. Hansen
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1960-09-07· cited 2×
• McGregor Co. v. Heritage
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1980-12-01· cited 2×
• Rossman v. Forman
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1960-10-26

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. Des Moines National Bank
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1899-02-08· cited 42×
• Edvalson v. Swick
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1951-01-24· cited 26×
• Cranston v. West Coast Life Ins.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1914-06-30· cited 26×
• Dillard v. Olalla Mining Co.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1908-04-07· cited 19×
• Baker v. Seaweard
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1912-12-03· cited 19×
• Smith v. Industrial Hospital Ass'n
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1952-04-09· cited 18×
• Van Dusen Inv. Co. v. Western Fishing Co.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1912-06-18· cited 13×
• Cram v. Tippery
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1944-10-30· cited 11×
• Masters v. Walker
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1918-09-17· cited 10×
• Levy v. Nevada-California-Oregon Ry.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1916-11-14· cited 8×