East Mill Creek Water Co. v. Salt Lake City

WADE, Justice.

This action was brought by East Mill Creek Water Company, a corporation, and some of its stockholders on behalf of all similarly situated, against Salt Lake City, to obtain a declaratory judgment interpreting the provisions of a contract affecting an exchange of water, entered into between the company and the city on July 19th, 1923. In the trial court the city prevailed and the plaintiffs appeal to this court.

At the time the contract was entered into the company and its stockholders were the owners of the right to the use of both summer and winter waters in Mill Creek, for…