Burguete v. G. W. Bond & Bro. Mercantile Co.

BRICE, Justice.

The first question is whether the defendant’s general manager had authority to make for it the contracts sued on in the . consolidated cases; and, if not, second, whether the defendant ratified them. The parties will be designated plaintiffs and defendant, as in the district court.

The following facts are not contested:

The defendant is a corporation which has for many years been engaged in the mercantile and ranching businesses. The plaintiffs are in the ranching business.

The duties of the president of the defendant corporation were: "To preside, when present, at all meetings of…