City of South Salt Lake v. Salt Lake County

ZIMMERMAN, Chief Justice:

These matters involve an appeal from a remand to the trial court of a question of statutory interpretation initially brought before this court by a combination of interlocutory appeals and extraordinary writs filed in early August of this year seeking review of a decision of the trial court staying township elections scheduled for August 6, 1996. Although the parties are varied, 1 for purposes of discussion the cases may be lumped into two categories: (i) the Holladay and Kearns Township election litigation, involving the City of West Jordan and those aligned with it,…