If an agent employ a subagent without authority, the former is a principal and the latter his agent, and the principal of the former has no connection with the latter.

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Source: CivC 1877, § 1381; CL 1887, § 4004; RCivC 1903, § 1700; RC 1919, § 1282; SDC 1939, § 3.0214.