Casa DiMario, Inc. v. Richardson

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• rejecting claim of apparent authority on basis that ‘‘ ‘the authority of a public agent to bind a municipality must be actual’ ’’
• finding with respect to authorization, \neither the solicitor's alleged representations nor those of any individual council members or other town officials were those of `duly authorized representatives of the town'\
• all three stating that a public agent must have actual authority to bind a municipality
• “[A] city or town can bind itself on * * * matters only by the official acts of its town council or by the authorized actions of its representatives.”
• “Communications, - 12 - representations, and alleged acts * * * are insufficient as a matter of law to bind a municipality to future acts or inaction [without formal approval of the town council].”

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