Opinion

Loos v. Mountain Fuel Supply Co.

  • 99 Utah 496
  • 108 P.2d 254
  • 1940 Utah LEXIS 77
Court
Utah Supreme Court
Filed
Dec 16, 1940
Status
Published
Author
Moffat
On the bench
Wolfe, Moffat, Larson, McDonough, Pratt
Cited by
16 cases

“[I]t is the province of the fact finder (the jury or the court where no jury is sitting) to draw or to reject such an inference [of negligence based on res ipsa loquitur].”

How later courts described this case

  • “[I]t is the province of the fact finder (the jury or the court where no jury is sitting) to draw or to reject such an inference [of negligence based on res ipsa loquitur].”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

MOFFAT, Chief Justice

(concurring in part, dissenting in part).

I concur in the order reversing the judgment against the Mountain Fuel Supply Company; I dissent from the order remanding the cause for a new trial as against the Utah Motor Parks, Inc.

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