PERKINS v. STEPHENS

No. 12775.

503 P.2d 1212 (1972)

28 Utah 2d 436

Richard Odell PERKINS and Dorothy Perkins, his wife, Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. Mervin STEPHENS and Alice P. Stephens, his wife, et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of Utah.

November 27, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Skeen & Skeen, E.J. Skeen, Salt Lake City, for defendants-appellants.

Bean, Bean & Smedley, K. Roger Bean, Layton, for plaintiffs-respondents.


HENRIOD, Justice:

Appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for plaintiffs in a malicious prosecution action. Reversed and remanded for a new trial, with costs on appeal to defendants.

This action has to do with a suit instituted by defendants against plaintiffs to enjoin them from using a septic tank which defendants claimed would pollute their spring some several hundred feet downhollow from Mutton Hollow.

A trial was had, and the only question...

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