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['HE STATE OF WYOMING,
I, Jeannine Hawkins, Clerk of the Ninth Judicial District Court within ¡md or the
aforesaid, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and complete copy of
Order dated November 8, 2000 and Order dated December 29, 2000
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my hand and a fixed the official seal of
said Coùrt, at my office in JacksQj1, Wyoming this 6th day of Febru r A.D.,
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Jeannine Hawki s, Clerk
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THE STAm bÞ'-\VYOMING· )
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County of Teton
I, Nancy 1. Guthrie, Judge of the District Court, in and for the County ofTet n, in the Ninth Judicial
District of the State of Wyoming, do hereby certify that Jeannine Hawkins who jas given the preceding
certificate, was at the time of so doing, the Clerk of the District Court, of the County nd State aforesaid, duly
qualified to act as such, that she is the proper custodian of the records of said Cou It and the proper officer
to gi ~e SU~h certificate, and that the same is in due form of law and that the Signaturr thereto attached is her
genume signature.
Witness my hand at Jackson, Wyoming this 6th ,day of February ,A.D., 20~.
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THE STATE OF WYOMING )
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County of Teton )
I, Jeannine Hawkins, Clerk ofthe District Court in and for the County ofTeon, State of Wyoming,
do hereby certify that the Honorable Nancy J. Guthrie, who has given the precedin1 certificate, was at the
time of so doing, Judge of the Ninth Judicial District, duly elected and legallyqualifibd to act as such, and to
all whose acts, full faith and credit ought to be given. I
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at
Jackson, Wyoming in said County, this 6th day of February ,A.D. 20 14 ,
5 'f. t" \ I Jeannine Hawkin , Clerk
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RECEIVED 2/2/2009 at 11 :13 AM
RECEIVING # 944979
BOOK: 714 PAGE: 247
JEANNE WAGNER
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GEORGE M. SONNETT, JR.,
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF TETON COUNTY, WY9MING F 1 LED
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O. JULINE CHRISTOFFERSON,
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ORDER
TIris distasteful case came on fur trial June 23 and 24, 1999. The Plaint1was present
and represented by cOW1Sel, Gerald R. Mason. The Defendant was prese~t and
represented (at that time) by cOW1Sel, Joseph F. Moore, Jr. After hearing ~he evidence,
the Court requested the parties file written closing argwnents. Six mo~ later,
specifically on January 21,2000 the Plaintiff filed his argument and then ~ee months
later, specifically April 18, 2000, the Defendant filed her argument. It sho~dd be noted
that the parties them selves, and not their attorneys drafted both argumentk. It should also
be noted that both arguments were singularly unhelpful to the Court.
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The complaint in this matter was filed October 29, 1990. It has taken ten rears
(presuming there will not be an appeal) to finalize a matter that should havf been settled
by the parties themselves without the help of the Court. While the Court does not assign
blame for this long delay and it felt no compW1ction to enter this Order in J timely
manner, the Court will point out that this case is an example of one ofthe feasons society
holds our judicial system in disrespect. I
The Court has reviewed its trial notes, the court files, reread the deposition of the Special
Master, examined the exhibits admitted and while neither party requested dndings of fact
and conclusions ofJaw makes note for the following: .
These parties were both members oflbe Bar oflbe State of Wyoming and tntered into an
association with Plaintiff working for Defendant at an hourly rate. From a~proximately
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the 1st of May, 1989 through September 30, 1990 (seventeen months) the ~arties
practiced together in a partnership although no written partnership agreemJnt was signed,
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event though the Defendant testified she prepared several different drafts which Plaintiff
refused to sign. Defendant contributed funúture, fixtures and equipment to! the
partnership and Plaintiff assumed liability for bank loans secured by those aÅsets.
Defendant managed the affairs of the partnership and upon dissolution refuJed to make
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an accounting to PIaintifl; retained the furniture, fixtures and equipment., the account,
receivable. Defendant denied the existence of a partnership until well after lithe
institution ofthis action. It was after this time she prepared an accoW1ting. A Special
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Master was appointed to conduct an independent accounting but did noti do so and relied
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òn the ticcounting and legal argument ofthe Defendant. Neither the Defrndant's
accounting nor the report of the Special Master was helpful to this Cou1' and the Court
finds it impossible to reconstruct the financial affairs of this partnership; I It appears to
the Court that the parties attempted to share on a fifty-fifty basis the pro~ts and losses of
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partnership. At dissolution, the accounts receivable were in the swn of $~0,800, 'less
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$10,000 collected by Defendant and $3,500 collected by Plaintiff. Accoqnts payabJe
were approximately $7,000. Therefore, each party was entitled to the sub of$23;t50
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Jess $3,500 as their share of the accounts payable. ! # /~ do,:;
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IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that P~aintiff recover
:trom Defendant the swn of $23, 150 with interest thereon at the statutoryirate.
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DATED this 1-".. day of· 7 )02H'I' t/ , 2000. I
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BY THE COURT:
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
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This matter comes on before the court upon the motion of Plaintiff to amend the
judgment entered herein on the 8th day of November 2000. The court, after having
considered the matter, finds that said motion should be denied with the exception of
matters contained in paragraph numbered one of the motion.
It is therefore ordered that the judgment entered herein on the 8th day of
November, 2000 be and it is hereby amended to reflect interest at the rate of 7% on the
judgment awarded to Plaintiff, said interest to begin ~s of the date of the judgment, to-
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Dated this 2'fh day of December, 2000.
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