Pickett v. California Pacific Utilities

MAUGHAN, Justice:

Plaintiff appeals a judgment of no cause of action, in which the trial court dismissed his complaint with prejudice after a trial on the merits. The judgment is affirmed. All statutory references are to Utah Code Annotated, 1953, as amended.

Plaintiff initiated this action seeking damages from California Pacific Utilities, hereinafter identified as Cal-Pac, for a permanent utility easement established across plaintiff’s property. Plaintiff further challenged the authority of Iron County to grant a franchise to a public utility to use the public right-of-way in a highway, where…