In Re Shulman Transport Enterprises, Inc.

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• reasoning that acting as an agent for one purpose does not provide the agent with authority to also act in other capacities
• a person may act as an agent in some matters without being an agent as to all dealings with the principal
• “lack of concern” is evidence that alleged agent is not “subject to the [alleged principal’s] direction and control”
• essential characteristic of agency relationship is that agent acts subject to principal’s direction and control
• “Agency is the fiduciary relation which results from the manifestation of consent by one person to another that the other shall act on his behalf and subject to his control, and consent by the other so to act.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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