Pitchfork Ranch Co. v. Bar Tl

ROSE, Justice.

OVERVIEW

This appeal from a summary judgment has, as its task, the resolve of the question which asks whether or not the Bar TL Ranch near Meeteetse, Wyoming, was sold to the highest lawful 1 bidder at an auction sale in 1978 — and if it was not, were the sale representations, relevant agency au thorities, and the applicable legal concepts such as to render unnecessary that the ranch be knocked down to the person submitting the highest bid. The pleadings indicate that both parties valued the ranch, at the time of sale, to be $4,000,000.00. 2 In the face of an uncontroverted…