Opinion ID: 1788581
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Heading: Officer's Liability for Tortious Interference

Text: Generally, a corporate officer's acts on the corporation's behalf are deemed corporate acts. See Leitch v. Hornsby, 935 S.W.2d 114, 117-18 (Tex.1996); Holloway v. Skinner, 898 S.W.2d 793, 795 (Tex.1995). A corporate officer or director may not be held liable for inducing the corporation to violate a contractual obligation as long as he or she acts in good faith on the corporation's behalf. See Holloway, 898 S.W.2d at 795. A corporate officer's potential personal gain is not determinative. Holloway, 898 S.W.2d at 796. A corporate officer's mixed motivesto benefit himself and for the corporation to benefitare insufficient to establish liability. Holloway, 898 S.W.2d at 796; Restatement (Second) of Torts § 772 cmt. c. (1979)(it is immaterial that the corporate agent also profits). Instead, the plaintiff must show that the officer acted in a manner so contrary to the corporation's best interests that his or her actions could only have been motivated by personal interest. Holloway, 898 S.W.2d at 796.