Court Opinion

ID: 9699230
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 20:14:09.815093+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:47.722011
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*120HENDERSON, Justice
(concurring in result).
At or about the time of this writing, there are several decisions in this Court involving a review, by this Court, of the standard of review on findings of fact and conclusions of law entered by the lower courts of this state. In an effort to comport my vote with previous writings that I have currently tendered by way of special writings to other cases in conference in this Court, at this time, I wish to refer to my special writings in Guardianship of Viereck, 411 N.W.2d 102, 107 (S.D.1987) (Henderson, J., specially concurring), and Lee v. Department of Health, 411 N.W.2d 108, 112 (S.D.1987) (Henderson, J., concurring in result).
Again, I wish to point out that the two United States Supreme Court decisions, cited in my earlier decisions, do not involve appeals from administrative agencies. SDCL 1-26-36 requires that great weight be given to the findings made and inferences drawn by an agency on questions of fact. Surely, the standard of clearly erroneous cannot be applied to conclusions of law since questions of law are fully reviewable.