Miotk v. Rudy

How courts have described this case

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

• where the court found no evidence other than defendant’s employment as plaintiffs attorney of attorney’s apparent authority to settle plaintiffs action
• an attorney does not acquire the implied authority to compromise and settle a client’s case merely by being employed
• principal liable for all acts of agent within apparent scope of authority conferred on it
• “All such acts and contracts of the agent as are within the apparent scope of the authority conferred on him, although no actual authority to do such acts or to make such contracts has been conferred, are also binding upon the principal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).