Herbert Construction Company, Cross-Appellant v. Continental Insurance Company, Cross-Appellee

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• plaintiff must establish reasonable reliance, and duty of inquiry amounts to an alternative way of asking whether reliance was reasonable
• plaintiff must establish reasonable reliance, and duty of inquiry amounts to an alternative way of asking whether reliance was reasonable
• “[T]he existence of ‘apparent authority’ depends upon a factual showing that the third party relied upon the misrepresentations of the agent because of some misleading conduct on the part of the principal – not the agent.”
• where “the agent stole a principal’s indicia of authority and falsely represented to a third party that he had authority to bind the principal,” the principal would not be liable to the third party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).