Salt Lake City v. State

ELLETT, Justice:

In this matter the City obtained a declaratory judgment holding that its grant of the use of water to the Territory and State of Utah was invalid. The grant was made some 80 years ago.

At the time of the grant the City was seeking to have the State Capitol moved from Fillmore to Salt Lake City; and in order to induce the Legislature to make that change, the city fathers entered into an *39agreement with leaders of the territorial government which was subsequently reduced to writing in the form of a series of documents including ordinance, statutes, and resolutions duly and…