Royer v. Public Utility District No. 1

The plaintiffs, as taxpayers, brought this action to have chapter 1 of the Laws of 1931, p. 3, Rem. Rev. Stat., § 11605 [P. C. § 4498-11] et seq., declared unconstitutional. After the action was instituted, the Pacific Power & Light Company intervened and took the same position. To the plaintiffs’ second amended complaint and the complaint in intervention, demurrers were interposed and sustained. The parties refused to plead further, and from the judgment dismissing the complaint, and also the complaint in intervention, the plaintiffs and the intervener appeal.

The act in question is one…