Short v. Spring Creek Ranch, Inc.

URBIGKIT, Justice,

specially concurring, with whom MACY, Justice, joins.

For years in Wyoming, without required count, the state bar, trial bench, and law school faculty classified this state as an evidence-of-negligence jurisdiction for application of statutory-violation rules for jury instruction. But then came Distad v. Cubin, Wyo., 633 P.2d 167 (1981).

One is almost led to conclude that sometimes architectural proclivities overwhelm adjudicatory necessities.

It was my opinion then, which remains unchanged, that Distad says everything and means nothing, or says nothing definable and means…