Court Opinion

ID: 9707430
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 02:11:33.097589+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:32.725760
License: Public Domain

BIEGELMEIER, Judge
(concurring specially).
I concur in the opinion insofar as it holds the evidence is insufficient to sustain the jury verdict and the judgment must be reversed. While the proceedings appear to have been informal as they sometimes are before administrative boards, the Board had an issue before it, and statements were made, including the much differing ones set out in Judge Winans' opinion. If not directed to ownership of the animals, they may have been pertinent to a possible claim of an agister's lien. Defendant did not follow up his motions for a directed verdict so as to preserve claims therein *403presented on appeal; had that been done, I believe the statement alleged in the complaint was a privileged communication within SDCL 20-11-5 as it was "one made * * * (2) * * * in any other official proceeding authorized by law". See opinion and reasoning of dissenting judges in Emo v. Milbank Mutual Insurance Company, 1971, N.D., 183 N.W.2d 508, 517.