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STATE, ETC. v. DIST. COURT OF NINTH JUD. DIST.

No. 5242.

617 P.2d 1056 (1980)

STATE of Wyoming ex rel. Alice PETERSON, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, State of Wyoming, Respondent, v. MILBANK MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

September 8, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Herman, Wind River Legal Services, Inc., and Mike Barton, Director, Wind River Legal Services, Inc., Fort Washakie, for petitioner.

James L. Hettinger of Hettinger & Leedy, Riverton, for respondent.

W.A. Smith and Philip Nicholas of W.A. Smith & Associates, Lander, for Milbank Mut. Ins. Co.

John D. Troughton, Atty. Gen., Peter J. Mulvaney, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Ronald P. Arnold, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, for State of Wyo.

Before RAPER, C.J., and McCLINTOCK, THOMAS, ROSE and ROONEY, JJ.

ROSE, Justice.

This petition for a writ of prohibition presents the issue of whether a Wyoming district court has subject-matter jurisdiction to adjudicate a claim arising out of a collision between a pickup truck and a horse on U.S. 287 within the Wind River Indian Reservation, Fremont County, Wyoming. The owners of the horse and truck were both enrolled members of the Shoshone Tribe. The truck owner's subrogee, Milbank Mutual Insurance Company, sued the horse owner...

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