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· 5/23/2024

Hinman v. Cornett

Syllabus

Whether the trial court properly granted summary judgment against parties asserting adverse possession where the claimants mistakenly believed they owned the disputed tract and the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to them did not show permissive use.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that plaintiff could not recover expenses covered by Medicare write-off under Idaho law because plaintiff was never obligated to pay that amount and allowing recovery could result in \double payment\
  • concluding that the write-off amount \is not an item of damages for which plaintiff may recover because plaintiff has incurred no liability therefor\ (quoting Kastick v. U-Haul Co. of W. Mich. , 292 A.D.2d 797 , 740 N.Y.S.2d 167 , 169 (2002) )
  • rejecting a plaintiff’s proposed exception to the peer review privilege statute when the statute left no room—even under “the rubric of public policy”—to adopt the proposed exception
  • rejecting a plaintiff’s proposed exception to the peer review privilege statute when the statute left no room—even under “the rubric of public policy”—to adopt the proposed exception
  • giving words in a statute “their plain, usual, and ordinary meaning”
  • “Once proved, however, negligence per se does not differ in its legal consequences from ordinary negligence.”

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