National Cash Register Company v. Lightner

How courts have described this case

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• The principal is ordinarily not liable for the independent acts of the agent done in his own name outside the scope of his employment.
• The principal is ordinarily not liable for the independent acts of the agent done in his own name outside the scope of his employment.
• principal not liable for unauthorized acts of agent absent consent of principal or other allegations of “apparent authority” of agent
• principal not liable for unauthorized acts of agent absent consent of principal or other allegations of \apparent authority\ of agent
• “[I]f there exists any ambiguity as to what transactions are covered by the provisions in question . . . , those provisions must be interpreted most strongly against the party drawing the contract . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).