People ex rel. O'Meara v. City Council of Salt Lake City
Utah Supreme Court
Original application for a writ of mandate to prevent tire city council of Salt Lake City from issuing bonds creating an indebtedness for the purpose of supplying the city with water, claiming that under section 4, article 14 of the Constitution the debt limit of the city is eight per cent of the value of the taxable property therein.
1Opinion of the CourtBaetch, C. J.
This is an original proceeding in this court, to obtain a writ of prohibition to prevent the city council of Salt Lake City from issuing certain city bonds and creating an indebtedness for the purpose of supplying the city with water. The petitioner in his affidavit, represents that the coun-' cil is about to issue a series of 250 bonds of the aggregate sum of $250,000, for the purpose of increasing the water supply and improving the waterworks of the city, pursuant to sees. 308, 309 and 310, R. S. 1898, which provides for the submission of the incurring of a bonded indebtedness to such…
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