Court Opinion

ID: 9609294
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:25:17.501858+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:02:50.134149
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WALTERS, Chief Judge,
dissenting.
The foregoing opinion holds that, as a matter of law, all requirements of I.C. § 25-2118 have been satisfied and that therefore the cattle owners (the Ellsworths) are clothed with immunity from liability to the Greers. I disagree. As I read the statute, it applies only where there is a collision between a vehicle and an animal. Such an occurrence does not appear to have happened in this case. I would remand the case for a determination of liability under ordinary rules of negligence without the protection afforded to an animal’s owner under I.C. § 25-2118.