Case ID: ill-app_182/html/0291-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

N. S. Sherman, trading as N. S. Sherman Machine & Iron Works, Appellee, v. Kennicott Water Softener Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 17,904.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Appeal from the City Court of Chicago Heights; the Hon. Homes Abbott, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1911.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed October 13, 1913.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action on contract by N. S. Sherman, doing business as N. S. Sherman Machine and Iron Works, against Kennicott Water Softener Company. From a judgment for four hundred and eighty dollars for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    C. A. Hood, for appellant.
    Lindhout & Lihdhout, for appellee.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Corporations, § 353
      
      —when corporation is hound hy acts of its agents. Where the evidence showed that an agent for a corporation managed all the business relating to the work and accepted the offer for the erection of a smoke stack for such corporation, it could not be contended that such agent had no power to contract in behalf of the corporation.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XIV, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Brown

delivered the opinion of the court.