North Laramie Land Co. v. Hoffman
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court of Platte County; Hon. William C. Mentzer, Judge. Action by the North Laramie Land Company against Albert E. Hoffman and others individually and as constituting the Board of County Commissioners of Platte County, and another. There was judgment for defendants and plaintiff brings error. Heard on motion to dismiss.
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Error to the District Court of Platte County; Hon. William C. Mentzer, Judge. Action by the North Laramie Land Company against Albert E. Hoffman and others individually and as constituting the Board of County Commissioners of Platte County, and another. There was judgment for defendants and plaintiff brings error. Heard on motion to dismiss. (See 26 Wyo. 327; 184 Pac. 226; 195 Pac. 98.) This cause is now before the court on motion for the dismissal of the appeal because there is now no controversy remaining in view of the building of the highway pursuant to decree of the district court and…
1Opinion of the Court
Kimball, Justice.
The plaintiff below, plaintiff in error here, sought by this action to enjoin the defendants from establishing a public road across the lands of the plaintiff. The defendants were the board of the county commissioners, and the members of that board, individually, and as such commissioners. The prayer of the petition was that the defendants “be perpetually restrained from taking any further proceedings or doing acts with respect to locating said proposed road * * *, and particularly from confiscating or appropriating any of the rights, properties or lands of the plaintiff” for…
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