Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis Railroad v. Wilcox

Citations

• 66 Ill. 417

Syllabus

<p>1. Agenct&emdash;where authority of' one acting for a corporation will he presumed. As corporations can act only by agents, where a person acts openly and publicly as the agent of a corporation, and in such capacity employed a party to perform certain work and labor, and the work, when completed, was appropriated and used by the corporation, and the work was done with the knowledge of its agents: Held, that the agency and authority of such person so permitted to act must be presumed.</p> <p>2. Implied promise. Where the plaintiff did certain work for a railroad company, and the company afterwards made a beneficial use of it, and one acting as agent of the company made the contract for the work, and where the company’s engineer promised to make out a voucher foi; it, and the chief engineer laid out the work, and an assistant engineer signed a voucher therefor with the plaintiff’s name therein as contractor: Held, that a promise to pay what the work was reasonably worth, might be inferred from such facts.</p>