Hendricks v. Great Plains Supply Co.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing a principal is bound by whatever an agent does within the agent’s scope of actual or apparent authority
• noting that “[ejxpress authority is derived from specific instructions by the principal in setting out duties ... ”
• declining to impose sanction when plaintiff homeowner and insurer demolished fire- damaged building before bringing subrogation claim against defendant subcontractors
• “Apparent authority is authority which, although not actually granted, has been knowingly permitted by the principal or which the principal holds the agent out as possessing. Apparent authority must be determined by what the principal does, rather than by any acts of the agent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).