Court Opinion

ID: 9793262
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:45:20.235445+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:04:14.020805
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URBIGKIT, Justice,
specially concurring.
I concur in the majority opinion, but do not in any regard rest my decision on Hochhalter v. Great Western Enterprises, Inc., 708 P.2d 666 (Wyo.1985). The Hoch-halter decision was based on clearly contrary national precedent and failed in both logic and justice for Wyoming. At the time of publication, the decision was classified by a state legal organization to be one of the two or three worst decisions by the Wyoming Supreme Court for that year. Although not a participant in the decision, I agreed then that the ease was, at best, misplaced in the law and find no absolution in more recent federal and state decisions now available.
I do not perceive that this decision is really a standard of review appellate vehicle either. It is observed that under W.R.C.P. 60(b), some character of real surprise or significant excusable neglect is required to gain a grant of affirmative relief on a motion to set aside entry of a default judgment. See also W.R.C.P. 55(c).
*1002This record fails to show the requirement of reasoned justification for a grant to set aside an entered judgment. In that regard, I agree with the majority decision and, in other respects, with the opinion and disposition of the case. Matter of Injury to Seevers, 720 P.2d 899 (Wyo.1986); Paul v. Paul, 631 P.2d 1060 (Wyo.1981).
Consequently, I concur in the decision.