Hoyle v. Monson

HALL, Justice:

David S. Monson, Lieutenant Governor-Secretary of State, and the State of Utah (hereinafter designated “Defendants”), appeal from the judgment of the Third District Court which declared U.C.A., 1953, 20-3-14 unconstitutional. The statute reads in pertinent part as follows:

Any candidate filing a nomination paper or acceptance . . . shall pay to the filing officer a fee for such filing. The fee to be paid shall be one fourth of one per cent of the total salary for the full term legally or customarily paid by such office.

The record furnished in this matter is scant. It contains…