State, Wyoming Game & Fish Commission v. Thornock

THOMAS, Justice.

The dispositive issue for this case is whether arbitrators, appointed pursuant to Wyo.Stat. § 23-l-901(d) (1991), are vested with authority to award to a landowner the cost of materials and expense of constructing a stack yard fence which had been built by the landowner claimant partially with materials that were furnished by the Game and Fish Commission. Collateral issues are raised concerning the appointment of an arbitrator whose brother was married to the claimant’s sister1 and hostility of the spectators at the arbitration hearing, which is claimed to have caused counsel…