Court Opinion

ID: 9598340
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:08:02.122969+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:46:03.922914
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE HARRISON
dissenting:
*506This case is in my judgment on all fours factually with Jumping Rainbow Ranch v. Conklin (1975), 167 Mont. 367, 538 P.2d 1027. In that case the attorney gave his secretary ten dollars and a box of chocolates for a quitclaim; here Kenneally gave a man named Russell five gallons of gasoline for a quitclaim deed knowing that Russell had no interest whatsoever in the property. The majority here decide to accept the findings of the District Court in spite of the exact opposite holding in Jumping Rainbow. I believe the trial court’s finding in the latter case, as we found, should be controlling in this case. I would reverse the findings of the District Court and return the case in light of our holding in Jumping Rainbow Ranch v. Conklin, supra.