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Johnson v. Sengstacke

Appellate Court of Illinois
May 4, 1948
334 Ill. App. 620 (Ill. App. Ct. 1948)

Opinion

Gen. No. 44,093. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed May 4, 1948 Released for publication June 4, 1948

CORPORATIONS, § 299president's power to discharge employee. Where corporate employer's president and general manager had for several years, with knowledge of employer's board of directors, hired and discharged employees without approval by formal resolution of board, president could properly discharge an employee having no stated term of employment notwithstanding that board failed to approve discharge in accordance with board's resolution providing that no person should be employed or discharged without board's approval, since board had "waived" or abrogated such resolution by nonuse thereof.

See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. U.S. SCHWARTZ, Judge, presiding.

Decretal order affirmed. Heard in the second division, first district, this court at the June term, 1947.

B.G. Clanton, for appellant;

Nat M. Kahn and David J.A. Hayes, for appellees.


Not to be published in full. Opinion filed May 4, 1948; released for publication June 4, 1948.


Summaries of

Johnson v. Sengstacke

Appellate Court of Illinois
May 4, 1948
334 Ill. App. 620 (Ill. App. Ct. 1948)
Case details for

Johnson v. Sengstacke

Case Details

Full title:Rudolf Johnson, Appellant, v. John H. Sengstacke et al., Appellees

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois

Date published: May 4, 1948

Citations

334 Ill. App. 620 (Ill. App. Ct. 1948)
79 N.E.2d 761

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