State ex rel. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission v. Fordyce

The State, acting by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, has appealed a judgment which (1) denied the commission relief on its complaint seeking to determine the rights of the parties and to enjoin Allen O. Fordyce from running elk on his ranch in Sheridan County, and (2) pursuant to defendant’s cross-claim, enjoined and restrained plaintiff from interference with defendant’s ownership and possession of the elk upon his deeded lands. The parties at pretrial stipulated the relevant facts, which in distillate form were that Fordyce, owner of a large ranch, fenced some eight hundred acres of…