If an agent employs a sub-agent without authority, the former is a principal and the latter his agent, and the principal of the former has no connection with the latter.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2350
Delegation of Agency
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 266 Cal. App. 2d 942 - Hartong v. Partake, Inc. (1968)
Most recently applied in 183 Cal. App. 3d 1299 - Steve Schmidt & Co. v. Berry (July 1986)
Enacted 1872.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.