Court Opinion

ID: 9576557
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:25:59.520215+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:09:52.755394
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BISTLINE, Justice,
concurring and specially concurring.
For reasons stated in my dissenting opinion in Durrant v. Christensen, 117 Idaho 70, 785 P.2d 634 (1990), I concur in today’s opinion for the Court, as far as it goes. To achieve real justice in this case, however, one more step needs to be taken. Assuming that the awards of attorney fees and costs in Durrant I, respectively $3632,50 and $499.40, have been paid, the only means of bringing the scales of justice into balance is a like award to the Durrants and Kenneth Sellers. To do less would be unjust. As one of my early mentors, Judge McNaughton, would have stated it, in Durrant I, the Durrants and Sellers were “mulcted in damages”: $3632.50 in attorney fees and $499.40 in court costs. Anyone doubting that assessment is free to comment otherwise, but only if he or she can verify as to having read that which follows: