Gibson v. Hardy

SWANSTROM, Judge.

Ned and Marne Hardy appeal from a district court judgment awarding damages to plaintiffs Gibson and Swallow caused by the Hardys in negligently performing a slash piling contract for the United States Forest Service (USFS). The Hardys assert that the judgment must be set aside because of the following errors: first, that plaintiffs had no justiciable interest in the property which was admittedly damaged or destroyed by the Hardys; second, that the trial court erred in concluding the Hardys breached a legal duty to plaintiffs to exercise due care not to damage or destroy wood…