Bailey v. Ness

How courts have described this case

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• explaining the three types of agency sufficient for an agent to bind a principal to a contract
• under doctrine of apparent authority, the tort liability of another can be imputed to the principal where the other had no contractual relationship of any kind with the principal
• in agency law, “implied au-thorify” is that which is “necessary, usual, and proper to accomplish or perform” an explicit grant of authority to an agent by a principal
• “[W]here the existence of an agency relationship is disputed—whether or not there is apparent authority on the agent’s part to act as he acted—it is a question for the trier of fact to resolve from the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).