Mitchell v. Pearson Enterprises

HALL, Chief Justice:

Plaintiffs appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of defendants in an action seeking damages for wrongful death. U.C.A., 1953, § 78-11-7. We affirm.

On July 17, 1979, Donald P. Mitchell, a Delaware businessman and husband and father of the plaintiffs in this action, was murdered in his room at the Salt Lake Hilton Hotel. Mitchell had eaten breakfast with a business associate, Louis Rosenberg, in the coffee shop of the Hilton. Following breakfast, Mitchell had returned to his room on the eighth floor of the hotel to use the bathroom before beginning his business…