Court Opinion

ID: 9627897
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 08:58:19.627022+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:51:08.222726
License: Public Domain

GRANT, District Judge,
dissenting.
I join in Justice Cardine’s dissent. After a thorough review of the record I am convinced that the buyers, unable or unwilling to fulfill their legal obligation under the contract, used the encroachment issue to avoid those obligations. Having heard the evidence, the trial court was convinced of this. That is, the trial court was convinced that the buyers simply did not rely on the alleged misrepresentations.
The majority cite Hagar v. Mobley, Wyo., 638 P.2d 127, 132 (1981), setting forth the three elements justifying rescission. Of course this is the law. But the trial court did not believe that the evidence proved the buyers’ alleged reliance and so found.
This case vividly illustrates the soundness of the principles recited by Justice Cardine. The majority cite abundant sound legal authority which, in view of the record, is not properly applicable.