Jerz v. Salt Lake County

HOWE, Associate Chief Justice:

Plaintiff Jeffery J. Jerz appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of defendant Salt Lake County. He contends that the trial court erred in holding that the Limitation of Landowner Liability-Public Recreation Act (“the Act”), Utah Code Ann. §§ 57-14-1 to -7, barred his complaint.

On August 18, 1987, plaintiff and his brother were driving in Butterfield Canyon in Salt Lake County on their way to the Kennecott lookout. This lookout offers a view of the Bingham Copper Mine, one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines. The road is a narrow public road…