Sanborn v. City of Boulder

This is a writ of error to review a decree dismissing the plaintiffs’ action in equity, whose object was to enjoin the municipal authorities of the city of Boulder from enforcing an alleged void city ordinance, purporting to create a paving improvement district. The city of Boulder is a special charter city whose organic law was adopted by its qualified electors under permission of the Twentieth Amendment to our state Constitution. This Court has repeatedly held that, with respect to purely local matters, the legislative power of these special charter cities is, with exceptions not material…