Court Opinion

ID: 9663124
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:28:27.456049+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:45.873921
License: Public Domain

WUEST, Chief Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur in the result in this case, but would cite SDCL 53-4-5 defining fraud in relation to contracts rather than Ward v. Dakota Telephone & Electric Co., 49 S.D. 135, 206 N.W. 695 (1925). There is a difference between fraud and deceit, SDCL 20-10-1 and 20-10-2, and fraud in relation to contracts, SDCL 53-4-5. See Rist v. Karlen, 90 S.D. 426, 241 N.W.2d 717 (1976), and Nielson v. Edwards, 34 S.D. 399, 148 N.W. 844 (1914).