Court Opinion

ID: 9546723
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:34:38.868059+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:16:48.600392
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BAKES, Justice,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
I concur with the result reached by the majority opinion except for the award of attorney fees on appeal. The appellant raised on appeal a debatable question concerning whether or not the district court denied him his constitutional right to a jury trial when the district court ruled that whether or not there was probable cause to file the original action was a question of law for the court, not for the jury. That is hardly a frivolous legal issue and, although appellant loses on that issue, it does not justify the award of attorney fees under I.C. § 12-121, I.R.C.P. 54(e), and Minich v. *105Gem State Developers, Inc., 99 Idaho 911, 591 P.2d 1078 (1979).