59-3-18. Agent's unauthorized employment of subagent.
If an agent employ a subagent without authority, the former is a principal and the latter his agent, and the principal of the former has no connection with the latter.
Source: CivC 1877, §1381; CL 1887, §4004; RCivC 1903, §1700; RC 1919, §1282; SDC 1939, §3.0214.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Section 59-3-1 - Agent may perform acts permitted to principal.
Section 59-3-2 - Actual authority defined.
Section 59-3-3 - Ostensible authority defined.
Section 59-3-4 - Agent's general authority.
Section 59-3-5 - Agent's necessary authority--Ordinary course of business.
Section 59-3-6 - Agent's necessary authority--Representation as to matter of fact.
Section 59-3-7 - Agent's power to disobey instructions.
Section 59-3-8 - Agent cannot have authority to defraud principal.
Section 59-3-9 - Exceptions to general authority--Agent cannot act in own name.
Section 59-3-10 - Exceptions to general authority--Scope of agency cannot be defined.
Section 59-3-11 - Exceptions to general authority--Forbidden acts.
Section 59-3-12 - Authority to sell real property--Power to give warranty.
Section 59-3-13 - Authority to sell personal property--Power to give warranties.
Section 59-3-14 - Authority to receive price of property.
Section 59-3-15 - Agent's delegation of powers.
Section 59-3-16 - Subagent, lawfully appointed, represents principal.
Section 59-3-17 - Responsibility as between principal and agent of agent.
Section 59-3-18 - Agent's unauthorized employment of subagent.