Effect of lessee's death or incapacity

When a lessor, without knowledge of a lessee's death or of an adjudication of his incapacity, deals with a lessee's agent pursuant to a written power of attorney signed by the lessee, the transaction binds the lessee's estate and the lessee. History: 1953 Comp., § 48-15-146, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 242, § 6; 1975, ch. 257, § 8-121.