1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 28
  3. CHAPTER 10
  4. Part 7
  5. 28-10-702 When agent responsible to third persons as principal

Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 28. CONTRACTS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS

CHAPTER 10. AGENCY

Part 7. Agent's Responsibility to Third Persons

When Agent Responsible To Third Persons As Principal

28-10-702. When agent responsible to third persons as principal. A person who assumes to act as an agent is responsible to third persons as a principal for acts in the course of the agency in any of the following cases and in no other:

(1) when, with the agent's consent, credit is given to the agent personally in a transaction;

(2) when the agent enters into a written contract in the name of the principal without believing in good faith that the agent has authority to do so; or

(3) when the agent's acts are wrongful in their nature.

History: En. Sec. 3131, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 5453, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7968, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 2343; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1256; re-en. Sec. 7968, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 2-212; amd. Sec. 813, Ch. 56, L. 2009.