Gronning v. Smart

HALL, Justice:

Appeal from a declaratory judgment which held as constitutional certain legislative enactments appropriating funds from the State Insurance Fund to the Industrial Commission. Such an appropriation of trust funds by the Legislature is a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Article I, Section 7 of the Utah Constitution, and the decision below is reversed.

The Industrial Commission is a state agency which exercises the police power of the State as it applies to employment entirely without reference to the State Insurance Fund and its duties and…