Damages may be awarded in a judicial proceeding for detriment resulting after the commencement thereof, or certain to result in the future.
S.D. Codified Laws § 21-1-10
Damages awarded for detriment after commencement of action
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Thomas v. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (1979)
Most recently applied in Keegan v. First Bank of Sioux Falls (May 1991)
Source: CivC 1877, § 1942; CL 1887, § 4576; RCivC 1903, § 2288; RC 1919, § 1961; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.1702.
How often courts cite this section
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.