Zions First National Bank v. Rocky Mountain Irrigation, Inc.

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• concluding that rule 15(b) requires \that the pleadings be conformed to the evidence presented at trial when no objection is made to the introduction of such evidence\
• explaining that, depending on the circumstances, \the existence of a debt\ may be either a legal or an equitable issue
• noting that its analysis of a right to a civil jury trial under Utah’s constitution was in line with the U.S. Supreme Court’s analysis of the federal right to a jury trial and adopting the reasoning of Beacon Theatres
• considering only whether alleged alterations on loan documents were material for a fraud claim pursuant to the section’s definition of “alteration”
• approving federal law holding “when legal and equitable issues turn on the same operative facts, a jury must decide the legal issue first; the jury’s factual determination binds the trial court in its determination of the parallel equitable issue”
• \Our rules of civil procedure require that the pleadings be conformed to the evidence presented at trial when no objection is made to the introduction of such evidence.\ (emphasis added)

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