Ruby Drilling Co., Inc. v. Billingsly’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “In Tissino v. Mavrakis, 67 Wyo. 560 , 228 P.2d 106 (1951), we held that the language of the statute intending the platting of a subdivision, and the sale of lots in accordance therewith, constituted a public dedication of the streets which are shown upon the plat. We also held that the platting and recording of a subdivision in accordance with the statutes resulted in the county or city acquiring fee title to all streets and ways set out therein. We modified the above holding in Tissino v. Mavrakis, supra, in two later cases that had to do with the power of municipalities to sell or transfer property formerly dedicated to the public through operation of the statute. In Gay Johnson’s Wyoming Automotive Service Co. v. City of Cheyenne, Wyo., 367 P.2d 787 (1961) and Payne v. City of Laramie, Wyo., 398 P.2d 557 (1965), we held that the intent of the language of § 34-115, W.S.1957 (predecessor to § 34-12-104, W.S.1977) was not to vest the city or county with fee title to the land underlying a street or alley but rather the terms of the statute merely conveyed to the public authority a title in trust for the public's benefit. This position was reiterated in Morad v. Brown, Wyo., 549 P.2d 312 (1976). These cases at least stand for the proposition that the language of present § 34-12-104, W.S.1977, was intended to grant the public an interest in streets and ways set out on a properly platted and recorded subdivision map.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sare v. Sheridan County Board of County Commissioners

2. “Every original owner or proprietor of any tract or parcel of land, who has heretofore subdivided, or shall hereafter subdivide the same into three (3) or more parts for the purpose of laying out any town or city, or any addition thereto, or any part thereof, or suburban lots, shall cause a plat of such subdivision, with references to known or permanent monuments, to be made, which shall accurately describe all the subdivisions of such tract or parcel of land, numbering the same by progressive numbers, and giving the dimensions, and length and breadth thereof, and the breadth and courses of all the streets and alleys established therein. Descriptions of lots or parcels of land in such subdivisions, according to the number and designation thereof, on said plat contained, in conveyances, or for the purposes of taxation, shall be deemed good and valid for all intents and purposes. The duty to file for record a plat, as provided herein [§§ 34-12-101 through 34-12-104, 34-12-106 through 34-12-1115], shall attach as a covenant of warranty, in all conveyances of any part or parcel of such subdivisions by the original owners or proprietors, against any and all assessments, costs and damages, paid, lost or incurred by any grantee, or person claiming under him, in consequence of the omission on the part of said owner or proprietors to file such plat.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ahearn v. Town of Wheatland

3. “Every such plat ... shall be signed by the owners and proprietors, and shall be duly acknowledged before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgement of deeds. The plat shall meet the approval of the board of county commissioners if it is of land situated without the boundaries of any city or town.... When thus executed, acknowledged and approved, said plat shall be filed for record and recorded in the office of the clerk of the proper county[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carnahan v. Lewis