Peterson v. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission

THOMAS, Justice.

The sole issue in this appeal evolves out of the contention that a-Wyoming Game and Fish warden, serving as a Bear Management Officer, was a peace officer so as to invoke the waiver provision found in Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 1-39-112 (Lexis 1999) of the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act pertaining to peace officers. Clayton E. Peterson, Jr. and Tanya Peterson (the Petersons) seek to recover for Mr. Peterson’s injuries when he was mauled by a bear that was the subject of bear management activities of the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission (Game and Fish), which the Petersons contend were…