Gordon Sel-Way, Inc. v. Spence Bros., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• imputing to the defendant corporation the knowledge of some of the employees of the corporation, who were not involved in an arbitration, that the arbitrator had been involved in a prior lawsuit against the corporation
• imputing to the defendant corporation the knowledge of some of the employees of the corporation, who were not involved in an arbitration, that the arbitrator had been involved in a prior lawsuit against the corporation
• a corporation’s knowledge consists of the knowledge of its officers and agents acquired while acting within the scope of their authority
• “The knowledge possessed by a corporation about a particular thing is the sum total of all the knowledge which its officers and agents ... acquire[ ] while acting under and within the scope of their authority.”
• “A corporation is merely a legal fiction acting through its officers and agents.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).