Court Opinion

ID: 9687414
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 16:27:34.924168+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:07:16.089087
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HOMEYER, Presiding Judge
(dissenting).
I dissent. The record does not convince me the trial judge erred when he found the plaintiff free from fraud, or from any participation in fraud, if a fraud upon the company was perpetrated by its agent. In that regard, I believe this case can be. distinguished from Williams v. Black Hills Benefit Life Association, 70 S.D. 611, 19 N.W.2d 769, prominently referred to in the majority opinion. In Williams the evidence was susceptible to no logical inference except that the applicant participated in the agent's fraud.
HANSON, J., concurs in this dissent.