Court Opinion

ID: 9443635
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:26:18.990705+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:33.447240
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HUXMAN, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I see no extraordinary or unusual circumstances in this case warranting the invocation of the extraordinary provision of Rule 7lA(h). Wyoming is a state of broad and large vistas and great distances. A distance of ISO miles is not considered an extraordinary journey. Ranches, large ranches, are common and numerous forms of ownership of property in that State. We have common knowledge that such ranches consist of valley land watered by streams, irrigated tracts and dry upland grass land. Finding men competent to fix the value of such property is not difficult in a state where men commonly own and deal in such property. Unless we take care, trial by jury will become the exception and trial by commission the rule in condemnation proceedings, contrary to the spirit and intent of the rule.
For these reasons I would reverse the judgment.