Chevron Oil Co. v. Sutton Ex Rel. Sutton

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• apparent authority arises when third parties are justified in believing that the agent is acting within his authority
• nature of action, not party’s designation of the relationship, is controlling
• “[T]he manner in which the parties designate a relationship is not controlling.”
• Chevron advertised in telephone directory that its repairmen were skillful
• “manner in which the parties designate a relationship is not controlling, and if an act done by one person on behalf of another is in its essential nature one of agency, the one is the agent of the other, notwithstanding he is not so called”
• “In the present case, there is a substantial dispute as to a material fact, and this should foreclose summary judgment. The fact in dispute is whether or not Chevron exercised such control over Sharp as' to bring the doctrine of respondeat superior into play.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).