Legal Opinion
Colman v. Utah State Land Board
Utah Supreme Court
Decided April 12, 1990No. 860331PublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEWART, Justice:
William J. Colman filed an action against the Utah State Land Board and against Ralph Miles, Director of the Utah Division of State Lands and Forestry of the Department of Natural Resources (referred to collectively as “the State”), and against Southern Pacific Transportation Company for the destruction of an underwater brine canal Colman maintained on the bed of the Great Salt Lake. The trial court dismissed the complaint, and Colman appealed.
I. FACTS
This case arose out of the breach of the Great Salt Lake causeway on August 1, 1984. The causeway is a raised bed of fill…
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