Provo City v. Jacobsen

WADE, Justice.

Plaintiff, Provo City, brings this action against the defendants, about forty individuals, to acquire certain lands near the shore of Utah Lake and Provo Bay for a municipal airport. Plaintiff alleges that the state of Utah claims to own said lands which it has leased to plaintiff; that defendants are in possession thereof and claim some right, title and interest thereto and ask that such interest be adjudicated and that such interest, if any, be condemned and plaintiff acquire the same by eminent domain. Utah lake is navigable. The lands in question are bounded on the west and…