Rocky Mountain Thrift Stores, Inc. v. Salt Lake City Corp.

HOWE, Associate Chief Justice:

Plaintiffs are owners and proprietors of commercial properties on three city blocks abutting North Temple Street in Salt Lake City, Utah. They brought this action against defendant governmental entities for damages caused their businesses by defendants’ alleged negligent mismanagement of flood waters during the 1983 spring runoff and for compensation for inverse condemnation of their property rights of ingress and egress. The trial court granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment and dismissed plaintiffs’ claims based on the Utah Governmental Immunity Act,…