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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Frank H. Twyeffort and Warren C. DuBois, Copartners Practicing the Profession of the Law under the Firm Name and Style of Twyeffort & DuBois, Respondents, v. Unexcelled Manufacturing Company, Inc., a Domestic Corporation, Appellant.
   Judgment modified by reducing the recovery to the sum of $375, with interest, and as so modified unanimously affirmed, without costs. We are of opinion that there can be no recovery under the second cause of action for the reason that the services found to have been rendered the defendant corporation under an agreement made with the president were not usual in the course of the defendant corporation’s business but were of an unusual and extraordinary nature, and the power to make the agreement was beyond the power of the president in the absence of proof of direct authorization by the corporation. (Trulock v. Kings County Iron Foundry, Inc., 216 App. Div. 439; Leary v. Albany Brewing Co., 77 id. 6; McCorry v. Wiarda & Co., 149 id. 863; Berwin & Co., Inc., v. Hewitt Realty Co., 199 id. 453; affd., 235 N. Y. 608.) Findings of fact and conclusions of law inconsistent herewith are reversed and new findings and conclusions wall be made. Present — Lazansky, P. J., Young, Hagarty, Tompkins and Davis, JJ. Settle order on notice.