Schoenberger v. Chicago Transit Authority

How courts have described this case

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• upholding a trial court’s determination&emdash;based on extensive evidence and testimony&emdash;that the plaintiff could- not have reasonably believed an agent to have apparent authority to bind the defendant
• “The authority to bind a principal will not be presumed, but rather, the person alleging the authority must prove its source ....”
• “Whether a person has notice of the lack of an agent’s authority or is put on notice by circumstances is a question of fact.”
• circumstances suggested that agent did not have the authority he claimed to possess
• “The authority to bind a principal will not be pre- sumed, but rather, the person alleging the authority must prove its source . . . .”
• circumstances suggested that agent did not have the authority he claimed to possess

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).