Forsman v. Forsman

HALL, Chief Justice:

Plaintiff was injured while a passenger in an automobile driven by her husband, George Forsman, which collided with an automobile owned by the Utah Department of Public Safety and driven by its employee, Ronald Flinders. Plaintiff thereupon sued both her husband and Flinders for damages sustained as a result of the collision.1

The trial court granted summary judgment of dismissal, concluding that plaintiff’s cause of action against her husband was barred by the doctrine of interspousal immunity and that her cause of action against Flinders was barred by failure to give…