Agency is actual when the principal appoints the agent.
S.D. Codified Laws § 59-1-4
Actual agency
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Dahl v. Sittner (1988)
Most recently applied in Dakota Provisions, LLC v. Hillshire Brands Co. (December 2016)
Source: CivC 1877, § 1341; CL 1887, § 3964; RCivC 1903, § 1660; RC 1919, § 1238; SDC 1939, § 3.0103.
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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: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.