Hunsaker v. State

HALL, Chief Justice:

Plaintiffs appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of defendant State of Utah on plaintiffs’ wrongful death claim arising from the kidnapping and murder of Maurine Hunsaker by Ralph Leroy Menzies, a parolee from the Utah State Prison. Plaintiffs also appeal the district court’s grant of defendant Gas-A-Mat Oil Corporation of Colorado’s (“Gas-A-Mat”) motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ claims against it. We affirm.

Maurine Hunsaker was employed by Gas-A-Mat as a cashier. On February 23, 1986, she was on duty at a Gas-A-Mat service station located in Salt Lake County. On…