Town of Ophir v. Jorgensen

WOOLLEY, District Judge.

The defendants were convicted before the justice of the peace of Tooele precinct, Tooele county, on a charge of violating an ordinance of the town of Ophir relating to befouling the waters of the stream from which the inhabitants of the town secure their water for domestic and culinary purposes. From the judgment entered upon that conviction they appealed to the district court of Tooele county, were there tried before the court sitting without a jury, and were ordered discharged and their bondsmen released on the ground that the ordinance under which they were…