Journal & Tribune Co. v. Lones
Journal & Tribune Co. v. Lones
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Appellant, the Journal & Tribune Company, a corporation engaged in the publication of a daily news
The contest is over that portion of the physician’s bill which represents subsequent visits to Smith at a hospital to which he was removed and office treatment of the employee. The court of civil appeals reversed-a judgment therefor against the company.
The insistence in behalf of the appellee, Dr. Lones, is that Denny by force of custom performed the duty of the general manager in the absence of that official and his assistant, while the contrary contention is that Denny was of a grade in authority lower than general manager of the publishing company. Without determining that question, it is manifest that there can be no recovery beyond the amount admitted and tendered by the appellant company.
The rule is that even the general manager of a commercial corporation has no authority or power implied
We need not follow the court of civil appeals into a discussion of the liability of the company for emergency service, since that is not contested.
The writ of certiorari having been granted, the judgment of the court of civil appeals is affirmed.
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