—where persons employed by corporations commit injury, the oporation should be responsible in the same manner that an individual is responsible for the act of his servant.

The use of a seal in the various obligations undertaken by corporations at the present time would be impractical, and it is well settled that the contracts which a corporation has the power to make may be made in the same manner that a natural person would make them, in the absence of any special restriction in the charter.

It is settled, upon abundant authority, that incorporated companies may be sued in their corporate character, for damages arising from their neglect of duty, and for trover

—was also an action on the case, and the judge who delivered the opinion, after 34 SUPREME COURT OF OHIO, IN BANK.

"Now, a corporation never was and never can be authorized by law to commit a tort; they can invest no one with power for that purpose. If, therefore, an agent constituted for a legal purpose, inflict an injury, the corporation is no more answerable, than it would be for an act of that agent, done without any authority whatever derived from it, because being unauthorized to …

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