Hurley v. Ornsteen

How courts have described this case

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• existence of agency relationship may be implied from \course of conduct showing that a principal has repeatedly acquiesced therein and adopted acts of the same kind\
• existence of agency relationship may be implied from \course of conduct showing that a principal has repeatedly acquiesced therein and adopted acts of the same kind\
• existence of agency relationship may be implied from “course of conduct showing that a principal has repeatedly acquiesced therein and adopted acts of the same kind”
• principal's repeated acquiescence in another's actions on its behalf indicates agency relationship
• also involving the president, treasurer and director of the corporation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

50 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Perry v. Hanover
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-06-28· cited 233×
• Stella v. Curtis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-02-05· cited 119×
• National Shawmut Bank v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-01-04· cited 62×
• Rubel v. Hayden, Harding & Buchanan, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-02-02· cited 54×
• Winchell v. Plywood Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-04-07· cited 54×
• Estate of Moulton v. Puopolo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-03-14· cited 42×
• McCarthy v. Brockton National Bank
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-06-30· cited 33×
• Kanavos v. Hancock Bank & Trust Co.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-08-23· cited 22×
• LaBonte v. White Construction Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-02-07· cited 19×
• Simonelli v. Boston Housing Authority
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1956-07-19· cited 18×
• Braden v. Trustees of Phillips Academy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-02-24· cited 18×
• Putnam v. DeRosa
  First Circuit· 1992-05-06· cited 17×
• Flaherty v. Baybank Merrimack Valley, N.A.
  D. Massachusetts· 1992-09-23· cited 15×
• Weisman v. Saetz
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-02-25· cited 15×
• Markarian v. Simonian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-17· cited 14×
• Bloomberg v. Greylock Broadcasting Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-05-03· cited 14×
• Henry E. Prunier v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
  First Circuit· 1957-11-08· cited 9×
• Donahue v. Draper
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-04-09· cited 8×
• Interstate Commerce Commission v. Holmes Transportation, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1993-01-15· cited 7×
• Anderson v. K. G. Moore, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1978-05-30· cited 6×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bresnick v. Heath
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-10-31· cited 313×
• Strong v. Haverhill Electric Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1938-02-11· cited 119×
• Sherman v. Fitch
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1867-11-15· cited 86×
• Marquis v. Messier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-07-07· cited 47×
• Albert E. Touchet, Inc. v. Touchet
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-10-08· cited 42×
• Murray v. C. N. Nelson Lumber Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1887-01-06· cited 38×
• Kelly v. Citizens Finance Co. of Lowell, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-09-10· cited 37×
• DeBlois v. Boylston & Tremont Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-01-12· cited 31×
• Stoneman v. Fox Film Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1936-10-05· cited 30×
• Howard v. Malden Savings Bank
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1938-05-23· cited 30×
• Federal National Bank v. O'Connell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-04-02· cited 30×
• Continental Ins. Co. v. Schulman
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1917-12-15· cited 29×
• Schleifer v. Worcester North Savings Institution
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-06-07· cited 28×
• Lonergan v. Highland Trust Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-09-12· cited 26×
• Condé Nast Press, Inc. v. Cornhill Publishing Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-05-24· cited 18×
• Horowitz v. State Street Trust Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-05-22· cited 18×
• Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance v. Nesson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-04-06· cited 11×
• Cashin v. Corporation Finance Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-01-28· cited 10×
• Vigeant v. Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1930-05-28· cited 9×
• Mack Realty Co. v. Beckley Hardware & Supply Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1929-04-30· cited 7×