State Highway Commission v. Ames

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a party cannot stipulate to a matter before the trial court and then argue on appeal that the resulting action was erroneous
• noting that the husband’s business, awarded to him as an asset, “although currently of minimal value, has the potential to improve as economic conditions change”
• stating that a party cannot stipulate to a matter before the trial court “and then argue on appeal that the resulting action was erroneous” and holding that the agreement amounted to a waiver that extinguished any error
• approving a 2011 property division that, among other things, required the husband to “thereafter submit his personal and business income tax returns in 2012, 2013, and 2014 to show whether the business improves”
• approving a 2011 property division that, among other things, required the husband to “thereafter submit his personal and business income tax returns in 2012, 2013, and 2014 to show whether the business improves”
• “A party cannot simply announce a position and expect the court to search for authority to sustain or reject that position.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).