Court Opinion

ID: 9577349
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:34:02.845747+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:20:24.940220
License: Public Domain

PARKER, Justice
(dissenting).
While I agree with the rule announced by the majority opinion that the board’s findings must be supported by substantial evidence, and that the record must show sufficient facts upon which the judgment and opinion of an expert is based, with a satisfactory explanation of any opinion at which he arrives, I am unable to follow the reasoning which is said to make this rule applicable in the present situation. That the rule is misapplied is illustrated by the part of the opinion which states:
“ * * * In the opinion of the appraisers since there had been no significant changes in physical property any difference in value from 1967 to 1968 would consist solely of economic gain or loss to railroad property generally, and they concluded that the economic loss for the one-year period 1967 to 1968 indicated for Union Pacific property was a valid and reliable measure of one-year economic loss of all railroad property in Wyoming. * * * ”
Such statement discloses a sound basis for the valuation and is inconsistent with the result which our court has now reached.