Cottonwood City Electors v. Salt Lake County Board of Commissioners

CROCKETT, Justice:

This case involves the rejection by the Salt Lake County Commission of a petition to incorporate a town to be known as Cottonwood City in the southeast environs of Salt Lake City. A group of the residents of an area adjoining what is known as the Cottonwood Mall Shopping Center filed a petition for that purpose with the County Commission.' Upon appropriate notice a public hearing was held by the Commission on October 4, 1971. The views of proponents and opponents of the proposal were duly presented, considered, and the petition denied. The petitioners then brought a…