A civil action is commenced as provided in §§ 15-2-30 and 15-2-31.
S.D. Codified Laws § 15-6-3
Commencement of action
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Devitt v. Hayes (1996)
Most recently applied in Matter of Carver Revocable Trust (June 2020)
Source: SD RCP, Rule 3, as adopted by Sup
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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.