Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Lincoln Financial Corp. v. Ferrier

Utah Supreme Court

Decided July 28, 1977No. 14296Published

1ConcurrenceEllett, Chief Justice

I concur in the result of the opinion by Justice Crockett; however, in the fourth paragraph of his opinion he inserted a statement about filing a counterclaim in an action for unlawful detainer to which I cannot agree. In stating that it was proper *1106to do so, he relied upon two cases1 which I shall subsequently discuss.

The law of this state was correctly set forth in two Utah cases a number of years ago and neither has ever been overruled. The first case is Dunbar v. Hansen2 where the defendant undertook to file a counterclaim in a statutory action of unlawful de-tainer. This Court said in…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Knight v. BlackCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1912
  2. Forrester v. CookUtah Supreme Court · 1930
  3. Lewis v. WhiteUtah Supreme Court · 1954
  4. Dunbar v. HansenUtah Supreme Court · 1926
  5. White v. District Court of Fourth Judicial Dist. in & for Utah CountyUtah Supreme Court · 1951

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