Legal Opinion
Hansen v. South Dakota Department of Transportation
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided September 30, 1998No. 20326PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERTSON, Justice (on reassignment).
[¶ 1.] Lisa Hansen (Hansen) was injured after driving her car into an unmarked construction hole on an Interstate 29 bridge. She sued the South Dakota Department of Transportation (DOT), DOT Secretary Richard Howard (Howard), and members of the Transportation Commission (Commission) for negligence in leaving the hole unmarked and unguarded. The trial court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss on the basis that sovereign immunity barred the action. We affirm.
FACTS
[¶ 2.] At approximately 7:20 a.m. on October 15, 1993, Hansen was traveling in the…
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