Legal Opinion
Rhoades v. Wright
Utah Supreme Court
Decided November 26, 1980No. 16246PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILKINS, Justice:
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of San Juan County dismissing plaintiff’s complaint seeking damages for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s husband.
The underlying facts surrounding the wrongful death action can be found in ex-tenso in the opinion of this Court in Rhoades v. Wright, Utah, 552 P.2d 131 (1976) (hereafter Rhoades I). However, the following brief recitation of the facts is repeated here to provide the framework upon which decision of this case rests.
Plaintiff and her husband, Claude Rhoades, lived approximately three-quarters of a mile on the…
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