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Title 15 - CIVIL PROCEDUREChapter 6 - RULES OF PROCEDURE IN CIRCUIT COURTS
Pleading special matters
Section 15-6-9(h) - Unknown party-How designated in pleadings and process

S.D. Codified Laws § 15-6-9(h)

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Section 15-6-9(h) - Unknown party-How designated in pleadings and process

When a party is ignorant of the name of an opposing party and so alleges in his pleading, the opposing party may be designated by any name, and when his true name is discovered the process and all pleadings and proceedings in the action shall be amended by substituting the true name.

SDCL 15-6-9(h)

SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.0401; SD RCP, Rule 9 (h), as adopted by Sup. Ct. Order March 29, 1966, effective July 1, 1966.