Utah Rapid Transit Co. v. Ogden City

ELIAS HANSEN, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff by an original proceeding brought in this court seeks a writ of prohibition permanently prohibiting the defendant city and its officers from purchasing and operating motorbusses as a common carrier within the city. Heretofore plaintiff has been operating a street railway within Ogden City and is now engaged in the business of carrying passengers within the city by means of motorbusses. Some issues of fact are raised by plaintiff’s petition for a writ and defendants’ answer thereto, but the facts so in dispute need not concern us in this proceeding so long…