Wood v. William Carter Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Elliott Wilk, J.), entered January 14, 2000, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion granted and the complaint dismissed. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment in favor of defendant dismissing the complaint.
Initially, we find that defendant cannot be held liable under the doctrine of actual authority as there is no dispute that Seth Winters was not an employee of defendant (see, Greene v Hellman, 51 NY2d 197; Ben-Reuven v Kidder, Peabody & Co., 241 AD2d…
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