60-2-12. Employee not bound to deliver without demand.
An employee who receives anything on account of an employer in any capacity other than that of a mere employee, is not bound to deliver it to the employer until demanded, and is not at liberty to send it to the employer from a distance without demand, in any mode involving greater risk than its retention by the employee.
Source: CivC 1877, §1144; CL 1887, §3767; RCivC 1903, §1463; RC 1919, §1087; SDC 1939, §17.0310; SL 2008, ch 276, §17.