Michael Savage v. City of Memphis

How courts have described this case

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

• “Having determined that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to Mr. Savage based on apparent authority, we turn to the City’s argument that the trial court erred in denying its motion for summary judgment.”
• reversing a grant of summary judgment because there were insufficient facts to establish that an attorney had apparent authority to settle a case when their client never expressly confirmed to the other party that the attorney had that authority
• \There are two bases under which the common law attributes the legal consequences of an agent's actions to the principal: actual authority and apparent authority.\
• “An agent’s subjective belief alone is not sufficient to establish implied authority where it is not based on a reasonable interpretation of the principal’s manifestation in light of his objectives and other facts known to the agent.”
• “[W]here the principal, by his own acts or conduct, has clothed the agent with the appearance of authority to act on his behalf, he is estopped from denying liability for the acts of the agent acting within that authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).