Cislaw v. Southland Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that a “franchisor must be permitted to retain such control as is necessary to protect and maintain its trademark, trade name and good will, without the risk of creating an agency relationship with its franchisees”
• considering whether an agency relationship exists between a franchisor and its franchisee and finding that franchisor was not liable for wrongful death arising from franchisee’s sale of clove cigarettes to a minor
• franchisor’s interest in reputation of its entire system allows it to exercise certain controls over the enterprise without running the risk of transforming an independent contractor/franehisee into an agent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).