Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court May 19, 1920 (Eastern Advertising Co. v. E. L. Patch Co.)

Carroll, J.

The plaintiff seeks to recover on three contracts in writing for the sale' of advertising space in electric cars. The defendant contends that the contracts were not approved by the plaintiff’s president or treasurer, as required by the contracts, and that the defendant was induced to execute them because of an oral promise by the plaintiff’s agent “that although the plaintiff would