Court Opinion

ID: 9542349
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:33:26.611373+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:07:46.681470
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BIEGELMEIER, Chief Justice
(concurring).
*349By reason of the fact that the trial judge relied on Christensen v. Krueger, 66 S.D. 66, 278 N.W. 171, Justice Winans, in fairness to the trial judge, properly discusses that decision in his opinion. However, as Christensen was based on erroneous conclusions and unacceptable principles of law of the type of Culhane v. Waterhouse, 51 S.D. 584, 215 N.W. 885, I must comment on it. Failing to place flares to the rear and along side the truck was a cause of the Christensen accident, and the passenger’s poor eyesight was a matter of no concern. I do not understand that the opinion in any way gives present-day approval of it,- as I believe it was wrong when written and is not authority today. Cf. Winburn v. Vander Vorst, 74 S.D. 531, 55 N.W.2d 609, on rehearing, 75 S.D. 111, 59 N.W.2d 819. With this explanation I concur in the opinion.