1) Joe is shopping for a new TV at Big Screen City Ltd. The company's return policy applies to regularly priced products only. The salesperson, new to the job, mistakenly tells Joe he may return any TV within seven days if he returns the box and packaging materials as well. Joe relies on this representation when he chooses a very large plasma television on sale for 10% off the regular price.
When Joe returns home, he learns his wife just lost her job. He immediately returns to Big Screen City with the TV and the packaging materials. The manager tells him the store policy does not allow for returns of the sale of merchandise.
2) Siblings Jack and Jill own a house-cleaning business, called "Jack and Jill". One day, Jack forgets to lock the door of a client's house when he leaves. The house is robbed, and the owners suffer a loss of approximately $20,000.00. The homeowners decide to seek damages in Small Claims Court.
3) Big Burping Burgers is a successful and well known fast food operation run by Rory Rib. Rory started as a sole proprietor, and he still runs the business that way because it gives him total control and oversight of the business. The store is always busy. It is open long hours, has many employees, and a broad customer base. People come from out of town for one of Rory's burgers. Rory is also innovative and has developed burgers made with products other than beef that appeal to customers across cultural lines. Rory is thinking about expanding his business.
4) Well, it happened. Big Burping Burger is in trouble. At one of its new branches, an employee mixed a batch of burgers that contained bacteria. The burgers were not cooked enough to kill off the organisms. As a result, 40 people became gravely ill, and four of them died. The municipal health unit shut the location down. The business is going to be fined a large sum of money, and there are civil suits by victims whose combined claim is in the millions of dollars.
* The salesperson is the agent for the Big Screen City Ltd, the manager is the principal of the Big Screen City Ltd, and Joe becomes the third party (Grabner-Kraeuter 43).
* The operation at Big Screen City Ltd is an agency authority because it presents a salesperson under authority to act on behalf of the manager who is the principal to develop a legal relationship with the third party who is Joe. Thus, the salesperson owes a duty to the manager to act on the manager's best interests within the authority of the agent. Therefore, the salesperson to use his due skills and diligence to negotiate terms of the transaction on behalf of the manager with the third party for the most significant benefit of the principal who is the manager. Besides, the statement indicates that the salesperson is new to the job. Thus, we assume that the agency in Big Screen City Ltd came into being through either express appointment through agreement either for reward or gratuitous for no consideration (Grabner-Kraeuter 43).
* The owners of the houses will name both Jack and Jill as the defenders in the lawsuit because they are the accused and business owners in the joint "Jack and Jill" house cleaning business.
* Jack and Jill were to use license to confer the right of ownership of the property to the house owner accordance with the terms of the permit such as intellectual property among others.