Dere v. Montgomery Ward and Co., Inc.

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• no apparent authority where principal’s act “cast doubt upon [the agent’s] continuing authority to bind [the principal]”
• “Whether an act is within the apparent scope of an agent’s authority turns upon the question whether ‘an ordinarily prudent person ... would be justified in believing that he is authorized to perform the act.’ ”
• “Whether an act is within the apparent scope of an agent’s authority turns upon the question whether ‘an ordinarily prudent person . . . would be justified in believing that he is authorized to perform the act.’” (quoting Wright, 194 Va. at 353)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).