Court Opinion

ID: 9847235
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:56:21.558289+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:03.957610
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UPON PETITION FOR REHEARING
This opinion supplements our prior opinion issued on September 4, 1985, which remains in force except as modified herein.
BURNETT, Judge.
Respondent Glen Kunzler has filed a petition for rehearing, together with a supporting brief. Appellants William Kunzler, Jr., and Will Reese Kunzler have filed an opposing memorandum. The petition does not challenge our prior opinion on its merits but asks that we reconsider the award of costs (exclusive of attorney fees) to the appellants. The petitioner, noting that our prior opinion affirmed the district court’s decision in part and vacated it in part, argues that he prevailed on several issues and should not suffer an award of costs against him.
Upon reconsideration, we are persuaded that the appellants and the respondent are partially prevailing parties. Rule 54(d)(1)(B), I.R.C.P., provides that when parties to an action have prevailed in part, the trial court may, in its sound discretion, apportion the costs. The same principle logically applies to partially prevailing parties on appeal. In this case, we deem it appropriate that the parties bear their own costs, including attorney fees. Our prior opinion is modified accordingly.
WALTERS, C.J., and SWANSTROM, J., concur.