Legal Opinion
Mortenson v. Scheer
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided May 4, 1998No. 96-340, 96-341PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Justice.
Frances Denise Mortenson, as Trustee of the Christopher and Frances Mortenson Family Trust, (Mortenson) and Lee Ranches, Inc. (Lee Ranches) challenge the application of the law of impossibility of performance by the trial court to excuse Vernon L. Scheer, Jolene D. Scheer, and Bud Burnaugh, Jr., and Mary Burnaugh, Co-Trustees of the Burnaugh Family Trust dated May 24, 1994, (the Seheers and Bumaughs) from performing their contract with Lee Ranches, Inc. The contract provided that the Seheers and Burnaughs would abandon their effort to establish a private road across the lands…
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