Ogden Livestock Shows, Inc. v. Rice

If a bridge breaks while a person lawfully entitled to use it is crossing with a load, is such user liable in damages? If so, is such liability predicated upon negligence of the user? What constitutes negligence in such a case? These are the questions involved in this appeal from the District Court of Weber County. These are the essential facts. Ogden Union Stockyards, a corporation, owned certain lands in Weber County upon which it operated livestock feeding and sales yards. By written lease it let the plaintiff Ogden Livestock Shows, Inc., a small tract of land upon which plaintiff…