Anchor Crane & Hoist Service Co. v. Sumrall Personnel Service, Inc.

I am unable to agree that when an employment agency calls a prospective employer on the telephone in an effort to place its client, an engineer, and is referred by the prospective employer’s president to his subordinate for the stated purpose of an interview with the engineer, the subordinate is thereby, somehow, clothed with apparent authority to hire the employment agency itself. Accordingly, I dissent.

It is undisputed that Sumrall called Anchor Crane seeking to place an engineer, not seeking to place itself. It is undisputed that Sumrall’s call was switched to Anchor Crane’s President…