PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT: Advisory jury’s verdict of $375,000 properly adopted as supplemental declaratory relief for “restoration” of public access bridge that had been moved from canal crossing… fees/ costs properly awarded PLWA, but improperly ordered taken out of $375,000 restoration fund, remanded for separate award… Olson affirmed, reversed. [Read more…]
$410,000 verdict, bridge easement interference
VERDICT: $410,000, tortious interference with public easement over bridge, public nuisance… trial following Supreme Court ruling that public prescriptive easement not limited to bridge destroyed by wildfire, includes replacement bridge in place at time of prior MSC decision which became law of case. [Read more…]
Public prescriptive easement, burned bridge
PUBLIC PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT not limited to bridge destroyed by wildfire, includes replacement bridge in place at time of prior MSC decision which became law of case… Swandal reversed. [Read more…]
Water, Teton River diversion
WATER: Certification to Water Court, injunctive relief, in challenge to Commissioner’s diversion of Teton River improperly denied… McKinnon reversed. [Read more…]