Court Opinion

ID: 9849622
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:43:19.230834+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:21.168855
License: Public Domain

PARKER, Justice
(dissenting).
Except in the instances for which provision is specifically made in Rule 54(b), *413W.R.C.P., piecemeal review is not favored.1 The instant case involves neither multiple claims nor multiple parties; Rule 54(b) has no application; and the cause is, therefore, not properly before us for decision on the merits. It might be noted that Federal courts are authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) to permit appeals of interlocutory orders under certain circumstances where only a single claim is involved, but Wyoming has no counterpart of that statute.
Additionally, the doctrine of stare de-cisis is a salutary one and a departure from it is not warranted here. There are, of course, compelling arguments to the effect that charitable organizations should not under present-day conditions be immune from liability for injuries sustained by a patient as a result of employees’ negligence, but there are likewise valid reasons supporting an opposite conclusion. While the issue here differs in certain respects from that of governmental immunity upon which this court spoke clearly in Bondurant v. Board of Trustees of the Memorial Hospital of Converse County, Wyo., 354 P.2d 219, 222, the bases for decision are similar. The questions of public policy attendant to a reversal of long-settled state precedent recognizing charitable immunity are properly ones for the consideration of the elected representatives of the citizens— the legislature.

. Reeves v. Harris, Wyo., 380 P.2d 769, 770,