Court Opinion

ID: 9734295
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:31:16.225203+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:47.736697
License: Public Domain

HENDERSON, Justice
(specially concurring).
With the entirety of this opinion I agree, except for the penultimate sentence reading “Should trial court determine Wittrock is responsible for these repair costs, it should allow Wittrock a reasonable time to pay.”
In my opinion, this otherwise excellent opinion is marred by that verbiage.
First, it is an anticipatory ruling by this Court.
Secondly, this case sounds in law, not equity.
Third, our direction invades the province of the trial court.
Fourth, and lastly, it is unnecessary in light of the express provisions of SDCL 15-6-62(a) which governs execution upon judgment or default judgment providing, inter alia, an automatic stay of'execution for 30 days “or as otherwise ordered for good cause.” We are poking our nose into the trial court’s business and we should stay at home.