Bank of Pawnee v. Joslin

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “where an agent signs a contract in his own name and the contract nowhere mentions the existence of an agency or the identity of the principal, parol evidence is not admissible to denounce the agent’s personal liability”
• holding the village was not estopped to deny the unenforceability of the alleged contracts because neither the village clerk or manager were granted authority to bind the village to a contract and such contracts were subject to final approval by the village board
• estoppel of city requires an affirmative act such as legislation, not the unauthorized act of an officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).