Grounds for change of venue
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case Bland v. Davison County (1997)
Most recently applied in Red Bear v. SESDAC, Inc. (May 2017)
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.0306.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The court may change the place of trial in the following cases:
(1) When the county designated for that purpose in the complaint is not the proper county;
(2) Where there is reason to believe that an impartial trial cannot be had therein;
(3) When the convenience of witnesses, and the ends of justice would be promoted by the change.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.