City and County of Denver v. Sweet

Defendants in error were plaintiffs and plaintiffs in error were defendants below and will be referred to here as they there appeared or by name.

On August 7; 1958, the Denver city council adopted Ordinance No. 280, Series of 1958, which called for a special election to be held September 9, 1958, and which would submit to the electors the question as to whether a charter amendment should be adopted authorizing the council to adopt an ordinance levying an income tax within certain prescribed limits and providing for the purposes for which the tax could be expended.

On August 8, 1958, plaintiffs…