All rights and liabilities which would accrue to an agent from transactions within the scope of his actual or ostensible authority if they had been entered into on his own account, accrue to the principal.
S.D. Codified Laws § 59-6-1
Rights and liabilities accruing to principal
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Dahl v. Sittner (1988)
Most recently applied in McKinney v. Pioneer Life Insurance Co. (January 1991)
Source: CivC 1877, § 1366; CL 1887, § 3989; RCivC 1903, § 1685; RC 1919, § 1267; SDC 1939, § 3.0301
How often courts cite this section
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.