Court Opinion

ID: 9514680
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:51:04.51926+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:20.018380
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SABERS, Justice
(concurring specially).
[¶ 65.] To those who would encourage the legislature to abolish the cause of action for alienation of affection, I remind them of two things:
1. The words of Justice Dunn in Hunt v. Hunt, 309 N.W.2d 818 (S.D.1981):
Finally, because we happen to be living in a period of loose morals and frequent extra-marital involvements is no reason for a *623court to put its stamp of approval on this conduct; and I feel certain that a case will arise in the future where some party has so flagrantly broken up a stable marriage that we would rue the day that an alienation suit was not available to the injured party.
Id. at 823 (concurring specially in part, and concurring in result in part) and,
2. —reread this case!