Smith v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co.

Citations

• 75 Wash. 128
• 134 P. 675
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1684

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Representation — Authority — Evidence — Sufficiency. Persons assuming to represent the president of a corporation in discharging an employee are shown to have been authorized to act, where the company at all times recognized their authority and the president, in a demand for an accounting, wrote the employee that he had been discharged by his order.</p> <p>Appeal — Review—Scope and Theory of Case. In an action by a discharged employee to recover salary after the discharge, recovery will not be allowed in the supreme court on a quantum meruit, where the action was not tried on that theory below nor any such issue submitted.</p>