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GAW v. STATE BY AND THROUGH DOT

No. 890139-CA.

798 P.2d 1130 (1990)

Fay GAW, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. STATE of Utah, By and Through its DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Carbon County, City of Helper, Jimmy Wray Lingle, Allstate Ins. Company, an Illinois Corp., Roadrunner Trucking, a New Mexico Corp., and John Does I Through X, Defendants and Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Utah.

September 13, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Debry, Edward T. Wells (argued), Daniel F. Bertch, Gordon K. Jensen, Robert J. Debry & Associates, Salt Lake City, for plaintiff and appellant.

Joy L. Sanders (argued), Jody K. Burnett, Snow, Christensen & Martineau, Salt Lake City, for Dept. of Transp.

Robert R. Wallace (argued), Scott F. Squire, Hanson, Epperson & Smith, Salt Lake City, for Roadrunner Trucking.

Before DAVIDSON, BULLOCK and ORME, JJ.

OPINION

ORME, Judge:

On April 16, 1984, Fay Gaw was turning left from a side street onto Highway 6 in Helper, Utah. Gaw apparently drove across a merge lane and into the through lane of traffic when she was hit by a truck driven by Jimmy Wray Lingle and owned by Roadrunner Trucking. Gaw was paralyzed from the chest down as a result of the accident. She brought suit against Lingle claiming that he had negligently operated the truck and against Roadrunner...

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