Court Opinion

ID: 9677704
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:57:49.767463+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:57.907760
License: Public Domain

DUNN, Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent.
*140I am convinced that SDCL 15-2-9 is not a statute of limitations. Statutes of limitation proceed on the theory that a plaintiff has a full opportunity to try his rights in the courts within certain time limits. This statute bars all recovery without allowing any time for the commencement of an action, if the action accrues six years following the completion of a building. No action by a plaintiff can remedy the situation.
Thus, the plaintiff has been denied the full opportunity to pursue her rights in the courts by this statute, and this runs afoul of state and federal constitutional provisions giving every person the right to remedy wrongs in the courts. U.S.Const. art. 14, § 1 and S.D.Const. art. VI, § 20.