{"data":{"id":"us-mt/28-10-702","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"28-10-702","heading":"When agent responsible to third persons as principal.","body":"A person who assumes to act as an agent is responsible to third persons as a principal for acts in the course of the agency in any of the following cases and in no other:\n(1) when, with the agent's consent, credit is given to the agent personally in a transaction;\n(2) when the agent enters into a written contract in the name of the principal without believing in good faith that the agent has authority to do so; or\n(3) when the agent's acts are wrongful in their nature.","path":["TITLE 28. CONTRACTS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS","CHAPTER 10. AGENCY","Part 7. Agent's Responsibility to Third Persons"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0280/chapter_0100/part_0070/section_0020/0280-0100-0070-0020.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:50:47Z","sha256":"442074447da6bfb1a560adb037a847cbc092641458f3f8cd2a4ffa092f498940","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/28-10-701","next":"us-mt/28-10-703"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}