Title Guaranty Company of Wyoming, Inc. v. Belt

McCLINTOCK, Justice.

Title Insurance Co. of Wyoming, Inc. 1 appeals from the order of the District Court of Natrona County dismissing its complaint against Logan Belt and Virginia Belt, d/b/a Petroleum Title Service. By this dismissal the district court determined that §§ 33-12 and 13, W.S.1957, 2 imposing restrictions upon the business of “furnishing abstracts of title” and imposing a fine of $500 for each and every failure to comply with the act, were penal in nature, subject to strict construction, and that, so construed, did not cover the activities of the defendants. The only question…