Slates v. International House of Pancakes, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff had the burden of establishing that he properly served an agent of the defendant.
• “Where a sufficient degree of control and direction is manifested by the parent franchisor, an agency relationship may be created”
• where one corporation so controls the affairs of another that the two corporations are essentially one, the corporate entities will be ignored and service on one corporation is effective as to the other
• “The mere licensing of a trade name does not create an agency relationship.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).