Melville v. Salt Lake County

ELLETT, Justice:

The plaintiffs appeal from an adverse ruling holding that the Albion Basin was properly and legally zoned so that no house could be erected on less than fifty acres of ground. They contend that the zoning ordinance is capricious and arbitrary and that it was not legally enacted.

It will be noted that Salt Lake City, which derives a part of its culinary water from the basin, makes no contention of pollution; that the County Fire Department makes no claim of fire hazard; and that the County Board of Health makes no adverse claim to the erection of houses on smaller parcels of…