Cox v. Cedar City Corp.

HOWE, Justice:

Cedar City destroyed a building, improvements and personal property pursuant to a court order declaring it a nuisance. Thereafter, plaintiff Paul J. Cox brought this action against Cedar City for damages for the removal and conversion of the personal property in the building. He now appeals the trial court’s dismissal of his case.

A wood frame building which had last been used in the late 1960s as an auto sales and repair business became vacant and fell into disrepair. Cedar City attempted but failed to convince the co-owners, Cox and Andrew McArthur, to make the necessary…