Friday, March 23, 2012

Nogales Service Center v. Atlantic Richfield Company case brief

Nogales Service Center v. Atlantic Richfield Company (Ariz. 1980)

-Classic inherent authority case.
-A principal can be liable for acts within an agent’s domain even if the principal has forbidden the agent from acting.
-Inherent authority most often occurs when there is a “general agent” who is restricted from entering into a particular contract, but whose general domain of authority includes actions like the one entered into.

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