Raney v. Barnes Lumber Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• defining agency as “the relationship which results from the manifestation of consent by one person to another that the other shall act on his behalf and subject to his control, and the agreement by the other so to act”
• mother and son owned land together, where son never agreed to sell and mother not acting as agent for son, there is no contract to sell property
• allocating burden to plaintiff alleging authority
• allocating burden to plaintiff alleging authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).