59-6-6. Incomplete execution binding on principal.
A principal is bound by an incomplete execution of an authority, when it is consistent with the whole purpose and scope thereof, but not otherwise.
Source: CivC 1877, §1367; CL 1887, §3990; RCivC 1903, §1686; RC 1919, §1268; SDC 1939, §3.0306.