59-3-1. Agent may perform acts permitted to principal.
Every act which may legally be done by or to any person, may be done by or to the agent of such person for that purpose unless a contrary intention plainly appears.
Source: CivC 1877, §1344; CL 1887, §3967; RCivC 1903, §1663; RC 1919, §1245; SDC 1939, §3.0201.