Backman v. Salt Lake County
Utah Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
HENRIOD, Justice.
Appeal from a judgment declaring the Civic Auditorium and Sports Arena Act of 1961 1 unconstitutional in an action instituted under the Declaratory Judgments Act. 2 Affirmed. No costs awarded.
At the outset it seems that this case is r ¿solvable on hut one procedural point: That the county did not follow the interdiction of the act with respect to initiating the election at the time and in the manner called for under the act. However, we feel constrained to discuss the points raised, with cautionary observations anent employment of the Declaratory Judgments Act in the future.
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