Medley v. Boomershine Pontiac-GMC Truck, Inc.

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• whether ratification of forgery occurred is question of fact where employee was acting outside the scope of his employment but for the benefit of his employer and employer retained benefits of his actions
• issue remained to be tried because evidence must be construed in non-movant’s favor
• customer could not sue car dealership under FBPA for representing to him that vehicle it sold him was a demonstrator when it was a rental fleet vehicle, in the absence of evidence that dealership had advertised vehicle to general public as demonstrator
• “A principal may by ratification or by failure to repudiate acts of his alleged agent become bound. But an act can not be subject to ratification unless done in behalf of the person adopting it and attempting to ratify it.”
• “Where the principal ratifies the tort of the agent after its commission, the liability of the principal is the same as if he had commanded it, provided the ratification is had with full knowledge on the part of the principal of the manner in which the tort was committed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).