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11 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 584

Baldwin v. Egan

Hamilton Circuit Court

Decided December 5, 1908

Hamilton Circuit Court · decided 1908-12-05

<p>ULTRA VIRES ACTS BY DIRECTORS.</p> <p>Corporations — Good Faith of Directors — Ultra Vires Agreements and Purchases of Property — Will not he Ordered Rescinded, When.</p> <p>Where the necessities of a corporation required the rentention of real estate which had been acquired under an ultra vires contract and compromise of pending suits, a court will not in the absence of fraud or bad faith order that the agreements be rescinded and a reconveyance made.</p>

Decided 1908-12-05

¶1The contract of February 16, 1893, although referring to the purchase of -the real estate by the .pronoun 1 ‘ I ” is signed by “The Egan Company. Thos. P. Egan, Pres’t,” and is therefore the contract of the company..

¶2The agreement to pay $30,000 in stock of the J. A. Fay & Egan Company for the real estate and the agreement to repurchase the stock on or before ten years from date at $45,000 constituted one indivisible contract, and was assumed by the J. A. Fay & Egan Company when it purchased the business — assumed and agreed to pay the debts and liabilities-of the Egan Company.

¶3The contract could not, although ultra vires, be rescinded without a tender and ultimate reconveyance of the real estate.

¶4The necessities of the company justified the retention of the' real estate, and a compromise of the pending suits to recover •the $45,000 on return of the stock, and in the absence of fraud and bad faith the judgment will be affirmed.

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