SIEFKES v. WATERTOWN TITLE CO.

Nos. 16208, 16227.

437 N.W.2d 190 (1989)

Roger G. SIEFKES, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. WATERTOWN TITLE COMPANY and Western Surety Company, Defendants, Appellants, and Third Party Plaintiffs, v. Hubert G. HERZOG, a/k/a Herbert Herzog, Third Party Defendants and Appellees, v. FISCHER TWINS, INC., and Alfred Fischer and Alvin Fischer, individually, Third Party Defendants and Appellees. Codington County Register of Deeds, Third Party Defendant and Appellee.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided March 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd D. Boyd of Gunderson, Evenson & Boyd, Clear Lake, for plaintiff and appellee.

John C. Wiles of Fox, Bartron, Wiles & Rylance, Watertown, for defendants, third party plaintiffs and appellants.

Thomas J. Green of Green, Schulz & Roby, Watertown, for third party defendant and plaintiff and appellee.

Timothy J. Weber, Eureka, for third party defendants and appellees.

Roger W. Ellyson, Codington County States' Atty., Watertown, for third party defendant and appellee, Codington County Register of Deeds.


MORGAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment entered in the principal action and from a summary judgment entered in a third party action.1 We affirm.

The principal controversy centers around the record title to a nine acre alfalfa field, abutting Highway 212 in the environs of Watertown and platted as Endres First Addition, Codington County, South Dakota. In the course of conveying title, the lot has been divided...

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