Opinion ID: 2586477
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Affidavit of Justen T. Robinson dated June 23, 2006

Text: [¶ 27] This affidavit states: 1. I am one of the general partners of ROBINSON FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP LLP. 2. I was born December 11, 1964 in Gillette, Wyoming. 3. I grew up on the family ranch in Crook County. I graduated from Moorcroft high school. While growing up on the family ranch, I helped with all ranching work, including fencing and moving and working livestock. I have lived continuously on the family ranch, except for the time I attended college during the 1983-84 and 1984-85 school years. 4. The family ranch lands are adjacent to the property described in the complaint in this matter (the property). While I was growing up on the family ranch and helping with the ranch work, we openly claimed the property as our own and continuously possessed and used it as our own by enclosing the property with our fences and grazing our livestock on it. We did not allow anyone else to use the property, other than letting our hired man run his cows on it. Our claim to the property, and our possession and use of it, were known in the community. 5. Our family formed the Robinson Family Limited Partnership LLP (the partnership) in November 2001, and my parents, Alden C. Robinson and Effie B. Robinson, conveyed the family ranch lands to the partnership. The partnership continued openly claiming the property as its own, and continuously possessed and used it as its own by enclosing the property with its fences and grazing its livestock on it. The partnership did not allow anyone else to use the property. The partnership's claim to the property, and its possession and use of the property, were known in the community. 6. When the family ranch lands were conveyed, it was always our intent to include all the lands we were possessing, using, and claiming as our own, including the property. Any omission of the description of the property from the conveyances was inadvertent. 7. When paying the real estate taxes on the family ranch lands, it was always our intent to pay the taxes for all the lands we were possessing, using, and claiming as our own, including the property. The total yearly real estate tax we pay on the family ranch lands is approximately $6,467.00. On information and belief, the yearly real estate tax on the property is approximately $140. Any failure on our part to pay the real estate taxes on the property was inadvertent. [¶ 28] This affidavit, identical in most respects to the affidavit of Alden C. Robinson, is, like that one, insufficient for the same reasons. It, too, fails to show the absence of genuine issues of material fact related to Robinson's adverse possession claim.