Case Name: Ruby WEST, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PROVO CITY CORPORATION, a municipal corporation, Defendant and Respondent
Court: Utah Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Utah
Decision Date: 1972-03-29
Citations: 27 Utah 2d 306
Docket Number: No. 12644
Parties: Ruby WEST, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PROVO CITY CORPORATION, a municipal corporation, Defendant and Respondent.
Judges: CALLISTER, C. J., and TUCKETT and CROCKETT, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Utah Reports, Second Series
Volume: 27
Pages: 306–310

Head Matter:
495 P.2d 1251
Ruby WEST, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PROVO CITY CORPORATION, a municipal corporation, Defendant and Respondent.
No. 12644.
Supreme Court of Utah.
March 29, 1972.
Pete N. Vlahos and Gary L. Gale, of Vlahos & Gale, Ogden, for plaintiff and appellant.
Glen J. Ellis, Provo, for defendant and respondent.

Opinion:
HENRIOD, Justice.
Appeal from a no cause of action summary judgment in favor of the City, on timely motion made therefor by the City. Affirmed.
Plaintiff alleged that while walking on a snow-covered sidewalk she slipped and fell, asking damages for injuries sustained on account of the City's "negligence . in allowing accumulation of ice on a sidewalk located in the business section ." No specific act of negligence other than the alleged accumulation was evidenced by affidavit or otherwise.
Plaintiff urged that statutory sanction to regulate sidewalks gave the City no agency by ordinance to delegate its authority to maintain sidewalks to abutting owners. This may be true, but that fact is not of controlling moment here, and we need not decide that point. The authorities generally and we particularly adhere to the principle that a city is not liable for injuries occurring on sidewalks caused by natural accumulation of falling snow or formation of ice, — without some other and independent tortious act or omission constituting compensable negligence,' — and we so hold.
CALLISTER, C. J., and TUCKETT and CROCKETT, JJ., concur.
. Title 10-8-23, Utah Code Annotated 1953.
. Provo City Ordinances (1964), Sec. 12.-52.150.
. Rhyne, Municipal Law (1957), Sec. 30-16, p. 758; 21 Minn.Law Rev. 704; Smith v. Distr. of Col., 89 U.S.App.D.C. 7, 189 P.2d 671, 39 A.L.R.2d 773.
. Berger v. Salt Lake City, 56 Utah 403, 191 P. 233, 13 A.L.R. 5 (1920).