SOUTH DAKOTA

STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

Open Acct.: 6

Sale of Goods: 4

Written Contract: 6

15-2-13. Contract obligation or liability -- Statutory liability -- Trespass -- Personal property -- Injury to noncontract rights -- Fraud -- Setting aside corporate instrument.

Except where, in special cases, a different limitation is prescribed by statute, the following civil actions other than for the recovery of real property can be commenced only within six years after the cause of action shall have accrued:

(1) An action upon a contract, obligation, or liability, express or implied, excepting those mentioned in § § 15-2-6 to 15-2-8, inclusive, and subdivisions 15-2-15(3) and (4);

(2) An action upon a liability created by statute other than a penalty or forfeiture; excepting those mentioned in subdivisions 15-2-15(3) and (4);

(3) An action for trespass upon real property;

(4) An action for taking, detaining, or injuring any goods or chattels, including actions for specific recovery of personal property;

(5) An action for criminal conversation or for any other injury to the rights of another not arising on contract and not otherwise specifically enumerated in § § 15-2-6 to 15-2-17, inclusive;

(6) An action for relief on the ground of fraud, in cases which heretofore were solely cognizable by the court of chancery;

(7) An action to set aside any instrument executed in the name of a corporation on the ground that the corporate charter had expired at the time of the execution of such instrument.

15-2-4. Accrual of cause of action on open account.

In an action brought to recover a balance due upon a mutual, open, and current account where there have been reciprocal demands between the parties, the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued from the time of the last item proved in the account on either side.

15-2-29. Writing required for acknowledgment or promise to take case out of operation of chapter.

No acknowledgment or promise is sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, whereby to take the case out of the operation of this chapter, unless the same be contained in some writing signed by the party to be charged thereby; but this section shall not alter the effect of any payment of principal or interest.