Can an officer who is not a company officer be bound by an admission made in a letter to a company?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mike’s Trucking Limited v. R. & L. Construction Co. Ltd., 1959 CanLII 103 (BC SC):
This argument might have merit if the officer were a present company official, or a person authorized to speak on behalf of the company. In Ellis v. Allan (1914), 1 Ch.D. 901, the company was held to be bound by an admission made by its solicitor in a letter. In that case however, it should be noted that the solicitor was one "whose authority to write had not been repudiated".
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