Court Opinion

ID: 9514813
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:51:49.453641+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:21.104206
License: Public Domain

GILBERTSON, Justice
(concurring in result).
[¶ 19.] I would reverse the circuit court based on Matter of Gillespi 397 N.W.2d 476 (S.D.1986). As Gillespi concludes, absent the following of service requirements created by our rules of civil procedure, “jurisdiction is totally lacking.” 397 N.W.2d at 478.
[¶ 20.] 1 cannot join the majority opinion as it continues to adhere to the doctrine of substantial compliance although admittedly it is not found to exist in this case. For the reasons set forth in my concurrence in result in Wagner v. Truesdell, 1998 SD 9, ¶ 17, 574 N.W.2d 627, 630 (Gilbertson, J., concurring in result), “[a]n advocacy of the doctrine of substantial compliance finds absolutely no support in our statutes concerning service of process.”
[¶ 21.] SABERS, Justice, joins this special writing.