Actions for conversion of personal property, or for the recovery of damages to persons or property, may at the option of the plaintiff be brought and tried in the county where the damages were inflicted or the cause of action arose.
S.D. Codified Laws § 15-5-8
Venue of actions for conversion or recovery of damages
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Good Lance v. Black Hills Dialysis, LLC (2015)
Most recently applied in Northland Captial v. Robinson (June 2022)
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.0304.
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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.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.