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).