Court Opinion

ID: 9711682
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:36:39.032403+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:06.508377
License: Public Domain

LE’EDOM, J.
(concurring). In reaching the foregoing conclusion the court has declined to apply to the facts of this case the rule of one of the leading cases in this field of the law, Fox v. Koehnig, 190 Wis. 528, 209 N.W. 708, 49 A.L.R. 903, to the effect that livestock at large on a highway under circumstances essentially the same as in this case, cannot be the proximate cause of damages arising from an accident such as the one here involved. While I concur in the court’s opinion it is my view that there do exist within South Dakota particularly, in the more remote rural parts and in open range land or so-called cattle country, areas presenting somewhat different circumstances in which livestock permitted to be at large could not render the owner liable in this type of accident.