Thompson v. JONES CTY. COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

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• holding a board of supervisors “can only act as a body, and its act must be evidenced by an entry on its minutes”
• finding that although the official minutes reflected that the board of trustees agreed to enter into a contract and authorized its president to execute the contract, the contract could not be enforced because its terms were not included in the minutes
• holding “that a contract with a public board may be enforced if enough of the terms and conditions of the contract are contained in the minutes for determination of the liabilities and obligations of the contracting parties without the necessity of resorting to other evidence”
• restricting the evidence for a minutes rule determination to the public board’s minutes
• involving discharged employee seeking payment under an oral employment contract the terms of which had not been finalized at the time of approval by the board nor were the terms sufficiently described in the minutes
• stating it is the responsibility of the party who contracts with the Board of Supervisors to see that the contract terms were properly recorded on the minutes of the board in order to rely on the terms

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).