CAMPBELL v. HOSPITALITY MOTOR INNS, INC.

No. 85-807.

24 Ohio St. 3d 54 (1986)

CAMPBELL, APPELLANT, v. HOSPITALITY MOTOR INNS, INC., APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided May 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart & DeChant Co., L.P.A., and Lawrence E. Stewart, for appellant.

Kahn, Kleinman, Yanowitz & Arnson Co., L.P.A., Sheldon Berns and James J. Bartolozzi, for appellee.


Per Curiam.

The question presented is whether the appellee corporation may be bound on a contract neither expressly authorized nor expressly ratified by its board of directors. The answer to this question turns on well-settled principles of the law of agency.

Directors and officers are agents of the corporation and can bind their principal, the corporation, by their acts. Kimball v. Kimball Bros., Inc. (1944), 143 Ohio St. 500 [28 O.O...

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