Section 21-10-8 - Liability of successive owners for continuing nuisance

21-10-8. Liability of successive owners for continuing nuisance.Every successive owner of property who neglects to abate a continuing nuisance upon, or in the use of, such property, created by a former owner, is liable therefor in the same manner as the one who first created it. Source: CivC 1877, §2051; CL 1887, §4685; RCivC 1903, §2397; RC 1919, §2070; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §37.4705.