Court Opinion

ID: 9623954
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:46:59.011488+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:51:45.983943
License: Public Domain

WOLFE, Justice.
I concur in the results.
The record is devoid of any evidence that vehicles crossing over the sidewalk depressed the pavement in the driveway, thereby forming the ledge on which the plaintiff stumbled. On the contrary, one of the plaintiff’s witnesses testified that when Salt Lake City reconstructed the sidewalk to the west of the driveway in 1930 or 1931, the sidewalk to the west of the driveway was built slightly higher than the pavement in the driveway. Thus it was proper for the trial court to nonsuit the plaintiff.
In view of the evidence, the question of whether an owner *128of property abutting a sidewalk is liable to persons using the sidewalk because of breaks and cracks caused in the sidewalk by the continuous crossing of vehicles of the owner and his servitors in gaining entrance to and exit from the property is therefore not before us and I express no opinion as to it.