Court Opinion

ID: 9854271
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:04:09.096313+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:59.838580
License: Public Domain

WOLFE, Chief
Justice.
I concur in the result. At the incipience of his opinion, Mr. Justice CROCKETT quotes from Mower v. McCarthy, 122 Utah 1, 245 P. 2d 224, 226, as follows:
“In reviewing a case * * * where issues of fact are involved and there are no findings of fact, we do not review the facts but assume that the trier of the facts found them in accord with its decision, and we affirm the decision if from the evidence it would be reasonable to find facts to support it.”
In certain cases, it is no doubt proper for this court to indulge in that assumption. In my dissenting opinion in Mower v. McCarthy, I explained why I thought in view of the state of the record in that case we could not indulge in that assumption. In the instant case, I think we need not resort to that assumption. While it is true that the trial court made no findings of fact, the court did state in its “Order and Judgment of Dismissal” that “the defendant corporation is not subject to service of process within the State of Utah.” Thus I think it clear without indulging in any assumption that the trial court found that the defendant was not doing business in Utah.