KIEL v. DeSMET TOWNSHIP

No. 11598.

242 N.W.2d 153 (1976)

Ardis KIEL, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. DeSMET TOWNSHIP et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

May 25, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vance R. C. Goldammer, Sioux Falls, argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief were Gary J. Pashby and Robert J. McDowell, of Boyce, Murphy, McDowell & Greenfield, Sioux Falls, for plaintiff and appellant.

Lyle J. Wirt, of Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, Sioux Falls, for defendant and respondent Morris Lee.

William G. Taylor, Jr., of Woods, Fuller, Shultz & Smith, Sioux Falls, for defendants and respondents DeSmet Township, Leslie Dannenbring and Selmer Skyberg.


WOLLMAN, Justice.

Appellant became totally blind as a result of injuries that she suffered when a car in which she was riding as a passenger ran off the road at a dead-end intersection on a township road approximately two miles northwest of DeSmet, South Dakota, late at night on June 27, 1971. She brought suit against the driver of the car, the township in which the intersection is located, the township supervisors, and the private contractor who had maintained the...

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