A seller's warranty whether express or implied extends to any person who may reasonably be expected to use, consume or be affected by the goods and who is injured by breach of the warranty. A seller may not exclude or limit the operation of this section.
S.D. Codified Laws § 57A-2-318
Third-party beneficiaries of warranties express or implied
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 57A-1-101 to 57A-9-809 (574 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Jandreau v. Sheesley Plumbing & Heating Co. (1982)
Most recently applied in Blaha v. Stuard (February 2002)
Source: SL 1966, ch 150, § 2-318; SDCL, § 57-4-41.
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.