Legal Opinion
Kunz v. Utah Power & Light Co.
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided April 3, 1990No. 18076PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*902BAKES, Chief Justice.
This case concerns an action brought in federal court by Kunz and various other landowners (“landowners”) against Utah Power & Light Company (“Utah Power”) for damages to real and personal property caused when Utah Power discharged water from an artificial storage system into a natural stream channel thereby flooding the riparian landowners’ property. The United States District Court dismissed all of the landowners’ theories of liability except for the negligence theory. The jury found that Utah Power was not negligent in its operation of the water storage system. The…
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