Sacramento Municipal Utility District v. All Parties and Persons

These actions were instituted by the plaintiff Sacramento Municipal Utility District to validate bonds issued by the district for the purpose of constructing works to supply the territory within the district with electric power. Judgment validating the issue was entered in each case in the court below, and these appeals followed.

A fundamental objection to the bonds, stressed in briefs and oral argument, is that a portion—in fact, the larger portion—of the territory to be served by the works to be constructed under the bond issue is not within the district at all. The district, as organized in…