28-10-606. Extent to which principal bound by acts under ostensible authority. A principal is bound by acts of the principal's agent under a merely ostensible authority to those persons only who have in good faith and without ordinary negligence incurred a liability or parted with value upon the faith of the authority.

     History: En. Sec. 3114, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 5446, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7961, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 2334; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1249; re-en. Sec. 7961, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 2-205; amd. Sec. 809, Ch. 56, L. 2009.