Kenneth D. Auvil v. Grafton Homes, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• \An agent’s authority must be conferred by some manifestation by the principal that the agent is authorized to act on the principal’s behalf.\ (emphasis in original)
• “An agent’s authority must be conferred by some manifestation by the principal that the agent is authorized to act on the principal’s behalf.” (emphasis in original) (citation omitted)
• \An agent's authority must be conferred by some manifestation by the principal that the agent is authorized to act on the principal's behalf.\ (emphasis in original) (citation omitted)
• “[Plaintiff] never indicated to [defendant] that he was relinquishing his right to approve a settlement, and [defendant] apparently recognized that fact when it later forwarded settlement papers for ‘[plaintiffs] approval.’ ”
• “It is generally accepted that when a client retains an attorney to represent him in litigation, absent an express agreement to the contrary, the attorney has implied authority to conduct the litigation and to negotiate its resolution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).