An agent has power to disobey instructions in dealing with the subject of the agency, in cases where it is clearly for the interests of his principal that he should do so, and there is not time to communicate with the principal.

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Source: CivC 1877, § 1359; CL 1887, § 3982; RCivC 1903, § 1678; RC 1919, § 1260; SDC 1939, § 3.0207.