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PETERSON v. WYOMING GAME AND FISH COM'N

No. 97-182.

989 P.2d 113 (1999)

Clayton E. PETERSON, Jr., and Tanya Peterson, Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. WYOMING GAME AND FISH COMMISSION, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

November 5, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Representing Appellants: James Richard McCarty, Casper; and Keith P. Tyler, Casper.

Representing Appellees: William U. Hill, Attorney General; John W. Renneisen; Deputy Attorney General; Thomas C. Wilson, Senior Assistant Attorney General; and Jennifer A. Cudworth, Assistant Attorney General.

Before LEHMAN, C.J., and THOMAS, MACY, GOLDEN, and TAYLOR, JJ.

THOMAS, Justice.

The sole issue in this appeal evolves out of the contention that a Wyoming Game and Fish warden, serving as a Bear Management Officer, was a peace officer so as to invoke the waiver provision found in Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 1-39-112 (Lexis 1999) of the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act pertaining to peace officers. Clayton E. Peterson, Jr. and Tanya Peterson (the Petersons) seek to recover for Mr. Peterson's injuries when he was mauled by a bear that...

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