Piedmont Operating Co. v. Cummings

1. The rule that a principal is bound to the extent of the authority which he has apparently conferred upon his agent has no reference to a situation in which a person affected by the acts of the agent does not deal with the agent in reliance upon the authority which the principal has apparently conferred upon him. 2 C. J. 575. Where an employee, in operating an automobile without actual authority from *398the employer, runs over another person and injures him, the injured person is not injured as a result of any dealings which he has had with the driver of the automobile as the agent of the…