Kaylor v. Carrollton Bank

1. In a suit against a bank on an alleged contract for services, where the plaintiff undertakes to show that the bank, while suspended in its ordinary operations as such, managed and controlled its property through a finance committee composed of certain individuals who had'authority to make the contract sued on, it is the general rule that the minutes of the corporation should be introduced to show the action of its directors and stockholders conferring such authority, and it is only when such minutes are silent upon the question involved that parol testimony or other proof is admissible to…