A Wyoming rancher is asking the Supreme Court to reverse an appellate court’s ruling on “corner-crossing” that allows hunters and others to cross over slivers of private property on their way to public land throughout the West.
Citing an “important and recurring” question affecting property rights across 150 million acres, attorneys for the Iron Bar ranch urged the high court to scrutinize the earlier ruling issued last March by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
That unanimous decision by a three-judge appellate panel gave the green light to so-called corner-crossing, which occurs when an individual steps from one public tract to another, passing diagonally across two adjacent parcels of private property. Iron Bar’s attorneys call this trespass.
“This case presents questions of profound legal and practical significance,” a team led by attorney R. Reeves Anderson, identified as the counsel of record, wrote in a petition for a writ of certiorari filed with the Supreme Court.
