Kennedy v. Western Sizzlin Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a franchisor’s reservation of the “right to supervise” a franchisee “to determine if that person conforms to the performance required by a contract ... does not, itself, establish control”
• noting “[a] franchise agreement, without more, does not make the franchisee an agent of the franchisor”
• “We recognize that a summary judgment on the issue of agency is generally inappropriate because agency is a question of fact to be determined by the trier of fact.”
• \Apparent authority is inferred from the conduct of the principal.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).