IDAHO QUARTERHORSE BREEDERS v. ADA CTY. FAIR BD.

No. 12869.

612 P.2d 1186 (1980)

101 Idaho 339

IDAHO QUARTERHORSE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a non-profit corporation, Earl Lilley, Troy Vance, and Delpha Van Komen, Individuals, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ADA COUNTY FAIR BOARD, a political subdivision of the State of Idaho, aka Western Idaho Fair Board, Harold O. Nelson, Richard Adams, Dr. Art S. Cudmore, William Tate, Clyde Rutledge, William Stevens and Robert DesAulniers, Individually and as members of the Ada County Fair Board, aka Western Idaho Fair Board, Dan Peters, Individually and as General Manager of the Ada County Fair Board, aka Western Idaho Fair Board, Duane Diedrickson, Individually and as racing secretary of the Ada County Fair Board, aka Western Idaho Fair Board, operating under the name and style of Les Bois Park; and John Does I through XX, Individually and as members of the Stall Committee of the Ada County Fair Board, aka Western Idaho Fair Board, operating under the name and style of Les Bois Park, Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

Rehearing Denied July 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilbur T. Nelson of Nelson & Westberg, Boise, for plaintiffs-appellants.

G. Lance Salladay of Risch, Goss & Insinger, Boise, for defendants-respondents.


SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from the order of the district court dismissing plaintiffs' cause of action in which they sought relief by declaratory judgment and injunction from certain practices of the defendants in conducting horse racing meets as those practices affect the racing of quarterhorses. We affirm.

In 1963, the Idaho legislature enacted the "Idaho Horse Racing Act." I.C. § 54-2501 to -2516. Therein the legislature indicated its intent...

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