Pueblo v. People ex rel. Flanders

In a complaint “in the nature of quo warranto,” filed in 1952, the relator Flanders alleges in brief that he is a taxpaying elector of respondent city of Pueblo; that the district attorney upon request declined to bring the action; that Pueblo has misused and abused its privilege or franchise to acquire and hold real property and does misuse such authority, in that in 1946 the city acquired by purchase from the county treasurer of Pueblo County certificates of purchase issued upon sale for default in payment of general taxes on certain real estate in the city, and thereafter, in the year…