Chitwood v. City & County of Denver

Plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs in the trial court. They appeared individually as taxpayers and voters of the City and County of Denver, and also on behalf of all others similárly situated, seeking an order of court holding that the proposed scheme for a “Valley Highway” under a certain Ordinance No. 50, series of 1948, was unlawful and void and beyond the discretion of the mayor or the city council to adopt, promote or perform. Plaintiffs also seek to have the ordinance itself declared unlawful and unconstitutional in its objects, purpose and effect, and to have defendants enjoined and…