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Yu Chuck, Et Al. vs. Kong Li Po

YU CHUCK, MACK YUENG, and DING MOON, plaintiffs-appellees, vs. "KONG LI PO", defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-22450 | 1924-12-03

D E C I S I O N


OSTRAND, J .:

The defendant is a domestic corporation organized in accordance with the laws of the Philippine Islands and engaged in the publication of a Chinese newspaper styled Kong Li Po. Its articles of incorporation and by-laws are in the usual form and provide for a board of directors and for other officers, among them a president whose duty it is to "sign all contracts and other instruments of writing." No special provision is made for a business or general manager.

Some time during the year 1919 one C.C. Chen or T.C. Chen was appointed general business manager of the newspaper. During the month of December of...