Nelson v. Shell Oil Company

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• revocation of agency becomes operative as to agent from time agent has actual notice thereof
• low degree of control by oil company over the daily operations of a service station precluded a finding of vicarious liability as to the company for the acts of the employee of the station operators, who were independent contractors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).