Aberdeen Production Credit Ass'n v. Redfield Livestock Auction, Inc.

As the muscle of the railroads began to weaken in the 1940’s through excessive regulation and taxation of government; and as the highways of this state, through the power of the people’s purse, vastly improved; and as the trucking industry began to flourish by the use of these modern highways and the industrial might of Detroit; and as the demand for a place to sell livestock grew, rather than to train livestock to Omaha, Nebraska, or to Sioux City, Iowa, a new and vital industry was birthed in this state. We South Dakotans saw sale barns, sometimes known as livestock pavilions, crop up…