Court Opinion

ID: 9575379
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:13:23.954735+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:48:09.703453
License: Public Domain

ELLETT, Justice
(concurring and dissenting) :
I concur except I can see no reason for overruling In re Harper’s Estate 1 prospectively. If it is bad law for the next case it is bad law for this one. No one involved in the instant matter has sustained any harm or loss by reliance upon the Harper case and for that reason I think the real property should be awarded to the surviving spouse.
If the daughter has any equitable rights in and to the property they would not be affected by this decision.
I would let each party bear his own costs.

. 1 Utah 2d 296, 265 P.2d 1005 (1954).