Smith v. Jewell Cotton Mill Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “Apparent authority will only be found where words or conduct of the principal — not the agent — are communicated to a third party, which give rise to a reasonable belief and appearance that the agent possesses authority to enter into the specific transaction at issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).