Court Opinion

ID: 9676405
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:23:45.983009+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:48.357512
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WUEST, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
I would affirm the trial court in all aspects. Making a left-hand turn in front of an oncoming semitrailer is negligence as a matter of law. See Barnhart v. Ahlers, 79 S.D. 186, 110 N.W.2d 125 (1961). Probably, a better practice for the trial court would have been to deny the partial summary judgment and made its decision at the settlement of instructions. Nevertheless, the trial court had before it all of the possible facts and, therefore, was in a position to render the partial summary judgment.