JESPERSEN v. Deseret News Pub. Co.

WADE, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a judgment awarding plaintiff $2,025 balance of the unpaid rent under the lease, $3,000 damages for the collapse of the rented building and $500 attorney’s fees. The question is presented: Does the evidence sustain the court’s finding that the building collapsed as the result of unreasonable use thereof by overloading and not as the result of only reasonable use or from damages caused by the elements ? If the answer to this question is in the affirmative, then the judgment must be approved; otherwise the award of damages to the property cannot be sustained…