CHEYENNE -- The Wyoming Stock Growers Association and others have indicated they will file briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court as Elk Mountain Ranch owner Fred Eshelman petitions justices to review his lower-court loss in the corner-crossing conflict.

Along with the stock growers, the Wyoming Wool Growers Association and the Montana Stockgrowers Association will file amicus briefs with the nation’s high court, Stock Growers Executive Vice President Jim Magagna said Thursday. United Property Owners of Montana also notified Ryan Semerad, an attorney for the appellees, that it intends to file a brief, Semerad said Thursday.

Stock growers will urge the court to take up the case, Magagna said. “Until the Supreme Court issues a decision, there’s going to always be uncertainty,” he said.

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