Mattison

Professional services having been rendered by the plaintiffs for the defendant corporation at the instance and request of its representatives, and a portion only of the fees therefor having been paid, suit was instituted for the balance, in which a judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs. Defendant corporation appealed.

From the testimony of the defendants it appeared that defendant Wilkes, as general manager of the company, employed the plaintiff to audit and prepare financial statements of its business, and that while they were at work thereon he wrote and delivered to plaintiff a letter confirming such employment at the offices of the company. It was contended upon the trial that Wilkes was not authorized to bind the company and that his act in so doing was not ratified, nor did the company receive the benefit of said services. Wilkes swore that as vice-president and general manager he managed the business of the corporation in directors’ meetings, that they knew all the time and for some months that they needed the audit and had discussed it among them; in fact, that he “talked with them that morning” before giving instructions to call the plaintiffs to the office,…