Bradley v. Nevada-California-Oregon Railway
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Thomas F. Moran, Judge. Action by F. Dean Bradley, doing business under the name and style of the Bradley Engineering Company, against the.Nevada-California-Oregon Railway. From judgment for defendant, and from order denying new trial, plaintiff appeals. Boards of directors always delegate the power to make ordinary contracts to general managers or superintendents, and such was the case with the respondent company.
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Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Thomas F. Moran, Judge. Action by F. Dean Bradley, doing business under the name and style of the Bradley Engineering Company, against the.Nevada-California-Oregon Railway. From judgment for defendant, and from order denying new trial, plaintiff appeals. Boards of directors always delegate the power to make ordinary contracts to general managers or superintendents, and such was the case with the respondent company. Even if it be true that the contract was not binding in the first instance because not made by the board of directors, it…
1Opinion of the Court
*415By the Court,
Sanders, J.:
This is an action against a railroad corporation organized under the general laws of the state to recover for the alleged breach of a written contract, whereby the plaintiff was employed by one T. F. Dunaway, the agent and vice-president of the defendant corporation, to build certain fences, sections, or portions of fence, along its right of way, as the defendant or its agents should designate, between Madeline and Cameron, Calif.; the fences in the aggregate to be not less than forty miles in length. It appears that the defendant’s agents, before the commencement of…
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