Powell v Lee

Facts

The claimant applied for a job as headmaster and the school managers decided to appoint him. One of them, acting without authority, told the plaintiff he had been accepted. Later the managers decided to appoint someone else. The claimant brought an action alleging that by breach of a contract to employ him he had suffered damages in loss of salary.
[edit]Judgment

The county court judge held that there was no contract as there had been no authorised communication of intention to contract on the part of the body, that is, the managers, alleged to be a party to the contract.

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