Miller v. Hagie, Barnard, Deahl

140 P.2d 746, 59 Wyo. 383, 1943 Wyo. LEXIS 19
CourtWyoming Supreme Court
DecidedAugust 31, 1943
Docket2259
StatusPublished
Cited by9 cases

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Miller v. Hagie, Barnard, Deahl, 140 P.2d 746, 59 Wyo. 383, 1943 Wyo. LEXIS 19 (Wyo. 1943).

Opinion

*388 OPINION

Riner, Justice.

The review is asked herein by direct appeal of a judgment of the District Court of Goshen County, Wyoming denying the appellants, David Miller and Michael Miller, plaintiffs below, an injunction whereby it was sought to restrain the defendants, respondents here, C. E. Hagie, G. G. Barnard, and G. W. Deahl as the Board of County Commissioners of said county from acting under certain eminent domain proceedings for a highway right-of-way, these proceedings being hereinafter described.

The facts material to be considered are substantially these: On November 7, 1941 the respondents named above hereinafter designated usually as the “Board” or the “defendants” acting as the Board of County Commissioners of said county at its regular session caused a “Notice of Location of Public Road” to be published *389 in the Torrington Telegram, a newspaper published in the town of Torrington in said county. This notice read as follows:

“To Whom It May Concern:
“The Board of County Commissioners of Goshen County, Wyoming, have decided to locate a road to be known as Torrington - Yan Tassell Road, beginning at the southeast corner of the NE%NE% of Section 9, Township 24 North, Range 61 West of the Sixth Principal Meridian, and running thence in a northerly direction to the northeast corner of Section 33, Township 25 North, Range 61 West; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section 33, said township and range; thence northerly to the Interstate Canal. The plans of said road showing location in detail are on file in the County Clerk’s office.
“The proposed location and width of right of way required are set forth in detail on said map on file in the County Clerk’s office and may be examined at said office.
“All objections thereto and claims for damages must be filed in writing with the County Clerk of said County before noon on the 8th day of December, 1941, or such road will be established without reference to such objections or claims for damages.
“Dated this 7th day of November, A. D. 1941.”

Thereafter copies of this notice were sent by mail to all the persons who owned lands adjoining the proposed highway.

Pursuant to said notice and within the time fixed therein, to-wit, December 8, 1941, the plaintiffs filed their written “Objection and Claim for Damages” with the county clerk of said county, the language thereof, omitting title, being hereinafter set forth for the most part verbatim thus:

“The undersigned, Dave Miller and Michael Miller, of Scotts Bluff County, State of Nebraska, respectfully represent that they are owners in fee of the following described real estate, to wit:
Northwest Quarter (NW1/^) of Section Thir *390 ty-four (34), Township Twenty-five (25), Range Sixty-one (61), Goshen County, Wyoming.
“The said Dave Miller and Michael Miller hereby object to the locating of a road in Goshen County, State of Wyoming, to be known as the Torrington - Van Tas-sell road. Objection to the locating of said road is made in compliance with a purported legal notice entitled “Notice of Location of Public Road”, which said notice was transmitted to the aforesaid Dave Miller by United States Mail.”

After setting out a copy of the notice hereinbefore quoted, the aforesaid “Objection and Claim for Damages” continues:

“The said Dave Miller and Michael Miller object to the locating of said road for the reason that the locating of said road requires the taking of an undetermined part of the real estate owned by the said Dave Miller and Michael Miller and described herein; that the taking of said real estate for said proposed road is not attempted to be done according to the statutes of the State of Wyoming and the taking of said real estate or an attempt to take the same is contrary to the laws of the State of Wyoming and of the United States. In further compliance with the said notice, the said Dave Miller and Michael Miller hereby present their claim for damages for the taking of said real estate, if the same be taken, and present their claims for damages to real estate not taken but injuriously affected, which said claim for damages is in the total amount of §5000.00.
“The within objections and claim for damages are filed solely for the purpose of complying with aforesaid notice, and the said Dave Miller and Michael Miller do not thereby waive their rights in and to the real estate described therein and to their rights to demand that the locating of said road and taking of real estate thereby be done strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes of the State of Wyoming.
“Dated this.day of December, 1941.
Dave Miller
Michael Miller.”

*391 There is attached to this paper a form of verification which does not seem to have been completed though said paper is stipulated by the parties to be a “true and correct copy” thereof.

On December 8, 1941 the Board aforesaid held a special meeting and the minutes of that meeting read relative to the matter at bar:

“Claim for damages for the location of a road known as the Torrington-Van Tassell road was filed December 8, 1941 by Dave Miller and Michael Miller, wherein they state they will be damaged in the amount of $5,000 if said road is located.
“Said objection has been duly considered by the Board and the following resolution adopted:
“WHEREAS, Dave Miller and Michael Miller have filed a claim for damages in the amount above set forth for the construction of a road as described in the Notice of Location of Public Road and shown on a map on file in the County Clerk’s office and
“WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Board to have the amount of said damages determined by disinterested appraisers,
“NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Goshen County, Wyoming, that Frank Jones of LaGrange, Wyoming, Emery Bright of Torrington, Wyoming, and Lee Simmons of Torrington, Wyoming, be, and they are hereby, appointed appraisers to appraise the damages, if any, caused by the construction of said proposed road, known as the Torrington-Van Tassell road.
“C. E. Hagie, Chairman.”

Thereafter and on December 15, 1941 the appraisers filed their report which reads (omitting title) as follows:

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