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Annual Survey Of Tennessee Law Administrative Law -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, Paul H. Sanders

Vanderbilt Law Review

Administrative Law consists of those legal principles, whether of constitutional, statutory or common law derivation, which are generally concerned with the organization, relationships, powers and procedures of administrative agencies.' These are the agencies of government, other than the regular courts and legislatures, which can determine private rights through adjudication or affect these rights through the making of rules having the status of law. It will be noted that the definition excludes the substantive rules of law applied and developed through such agencies. Procedural in nature, it is an area of law in which the institution of judicial review of administrative …

Agency -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, Merton L. Ferson

Vanderbilt Law Review

Scope of Employment: In the case of McKinnon v. Michaud,- it appeared that Mrs. McKinnon was in the business of distributing petroleum products wholesale. Her servant, Nickson, made delivery of gasoline to a service station, put the nozzle from his truck into the retailer's tank and then carelessly allowed the tank to overflow. Nickson then enhanced the danger by throwing water on the gasoline with the result that it splashed onto an open stove and caused an extensive fire that damaged the plaintiff. Mrs. McKinnon was held liable. The court did not decide whether Nickson's act of throwing water on …

Book Reviews, Walter P. Armstrong Jr., Robert A. Pascal

Vanderbilt Law Review

Bender's Federal Practice Forms By Louis R. Frumer Albany: Matthew Bender & Company, 1951-53, 4 Vols.(1 to follow), $85.00

reviewer: Walter P. Armstrong, Jr.

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Principles of Agency By Merton Ferson Brooklyn: The FoundationPress, 1954. Pp. xx, 490

reviewer: Robert A. Pascal

Agency--Liability Of Employer For Acts Of Independent Contractor, C. B. F.

West Virginia Law Review

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Agency - Apparent Authority Of Sales Agent, William D. Keeler

Michigan Law Review

Defendant's agent, a consignee of automobiles for sale, received from plaintiff a used truck, and agreed to apply the proceeds from the sale of the truck to the purchase price of a new automobile, to be sold and delivered to plaintiff when available. Defendant's agent sold the truck and absconded with the proceeds from such sale. Plaintiff sued for the value of the truck, and the lower court rendered judgment in his favor. On appeal, held, affirmed. The acts of the agent bound the defendant, although the agency contract gave only express authority to sell new automobiles. Correa v. …

Liability Of Master To Guest In Salesman's Automobile - Wood V. H. W. Gossard Co.

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Agency--Presumption Thereof Arising From Ownership Of Motor Vehicle And Employment Of Driver, George D. Schrader

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.