Barendregt v. Walla Walla School District No. 140

How courts have described this case

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• stating that an administrative agency created by statute has only those powers expressly granted or necessarily implied by that statute
• stating that a public agent cannot bind a governmental agency when he enters into a contract which is ultra vires, “even though the public body for which he acts may have clothed him with such indicia of authority that it would be estopped if it were a private person”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).