Court Opinion

ID: 9621941
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:09:49.383625+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:32:46.802488
License: Public Domain

HENRIOD, Justice
(dissenting).
With some misgiving I dissent, particularly for the reason that I think the case of Sims v. George, 24 Utah 2d 102, 466 P.2d 831, March 20, 1970, (in which I did not participate), was factually and in principle pretty much the same as the instant case. There, on the well-established but worked over rule that we review the evidence in a light most favorable to the arbiter of the facts who is more advantaged in canvassing the demeanor and color of the witness’ eyes, etc., this court sustained the arbiter. In the instant case we reverse the fact finder, even though, in my opinion, there are as many believable facts in support of his conclusion as there were in the Sims case, supra.