Gaines v. Kelly

How courts have described this case

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• holding that agent had actual authority to deliver and explain loan documents but did not have actual authority to negotiate terms of the loans
• holding that agent had actual authority to deliver and explain loan documents but did not have actual authority to negotiate terms of the loans
• stating that when assessing existence of agent’s apparent authority, courts examine principal’s conduct and reasonableness of third party’s assumptions about authority
• stating that agent’s authority to act depends on some communication by principal either to agent (for actual authority) or to third party (for apparent authority)
• explaining the declarations of the alleged agent, without more, are incompetent to establish the existence or scope of the agency relationship
• stating principal is liable for acts of another acting as its agent only when agent has actual or apparent authority to do those acts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).