Nelden v. Clark
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the Third District Court, Salt Lake County, Hon. Ogden Hiles, Judge. Action by plaintiff to restrain the Mayor and City Council of Salt Lake City, City Engineer and Superintendent of Water Works, under the order of the city council, from constructing improvements to the city water works system and from constructing a bridge across the Jordan river. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appealed.
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Appeal from the Third District Court, Salt Lake County, Hon. Ogden Hiles, Judge. Action by plaintiff to restrain the Mayor and City Council of Salt Lake City, City Engineer and Superintendent of Water Works, under the order of the city council, from constructing improvements to the city water works system and from constructing a bridge across the Jordan river. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appealed. The appellants insist that the defendant City, through its City Council, had the power and authority to purchase the materials and do the work in the way proposed by the Council, under…
1Opinion of the CourtMiner, J.
This action was brought in April, 1899, to restrain the mayor and city council of Salt Lake City, the city en*386gineer and superintendent of water works, under the order of the city council, from constructing about $30,000 worth of improvements to the city water works system, and also the construction of a bridge across the Jordan river at a cost of $3,500.
Plaintiffs claim that under the law, the board of public works were required to make contracts on behalf of the city for the performance of all such work, and the erection of the improvements described in the complaint and ordered by the city…
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