Legal Opinion
Peak Alarm Co., Inc. v. Salt Lake City Corp.
Utah Supreme Court
Decided April 16, 2010No. 20080918PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DURHAM, Chief Justice:
INTRODUCTION
T1 This case began with a telephone call for police assistance by a private alarm company. In time, this single call led to a misdemeanor prosecution and then this civil lawsuit. The call was made after a number of teenage girls set off burglar alarms at a Salt Lake City high school. Salt Lake City police concluded the caller, Michael Jeffrey Howe, violated a state statute criminalizing the making of a false alarm and charged him accordingly. Mr. Howe stated in the call that a Peak Alarm security guard had verified the break in. In reality it was a school…
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