Richard W. Shear v. The National Rifle Association of America, a New York Corporation

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• holding that despite the board’s lack of authority to approve a contract, the corporation may be bound by it if the president possessed apparent authority to sign it
• holding that despite the board‘s lack of authority to approve a (continued…
• holding that breach of collateral promise was action- able
• “This doctrine provides that when a promisor wrongfully prevents a condition from occurring that condition is excused.”
• contractor must show that interference 'substantially contributed' to the non-occurrence of a condition precedent, in order to claim that prevention excused the condition
• “the prevention doctrine does not apply when the contract, in effect, authorizes prevention”

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