City & County of Denver v. Lynch

PLAINTIFFS in error are hereinafter referred to as the city, defendant in error Lynch as plaintiff, and defendant in error Luxford as the county judge.

This suit is prosecuted under our Declaratory Judgments Act and its purpose is to secure a judicial determination of the constitutionality of Colorado's "Old Age Pension" law and an interpretation thereof. It was brought by plaintiff against all the plaintiffs in error and the county judge. The latter, by his answer, took substantially the same position as plaintiff, admitted the constitutionality of the statute and alleged that he had…