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· 5/15/2001

James v. Alberts

Citations

  • 626 N.W.2d 158
  • 464 Mich. 12

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that an individual’s status as trespasser, licensee, or invitee determines the landowner’s attendant duty
  • noting that \a principal is bound by an agent's actions within the agent's actual or apparent authority\
  • noting that “a principal is hound by an agent’s actions within the agent’s actual or apparent authority”
  • recognizing individual’s status as trespasser, licensee, or invitee determines the landowner’s attendant duty
  • abolishing the volunteer doctrine because “the fellow-servant rule, which created the need for the volunteer doctrine, was no longer part of our law”
  • “Under fundamental agency law, a principal is bound by an agent’s actions within the agent’s actual or apparent authority.”

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Judges: Corrigan, Cavanagh, Weaver, Kelly, Young, Markman, Taylor

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