Court Opinion

ID: 9687158
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 16:17:27.295601+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:24.560707
License: Public Domain

*365VANDE WALLE, Justice,
concurring specially.
I agree with the thoughtful opinion written for the court by Justice Meschke. I write separately to emphasize one factor which may be encompassed within the term “fair value,” and which is separate from “market value,” and other economic values, i.e., the innate or intrinsic value of our irreplaceable natural resources, and, in North Dakota, most particularly the land. This State’s dependence upon its agricultural industry, i.e., its land, is an accepted fact. I believe it may have been the innate or intrinsic value of land which the Legislature specifically had in mind when, as Justice Meschke has noted, it purposely prescribed “fair value” rather than “market value” as the standard to obtain a deficiency judgment. It is not by accident that the North Dakota Coat of Arms, prescribed by Section 54-41-01, N.D.C.C., contains the motto “Strength From the Soil”!