Lyte v. District Court of Salt Lake County

ELIAS HANSEN, Chief Justice.

Defendants have filed a petition for rehearing and a brief in support thereof. It is again urged that the Legislature may, without offending against the constitutional inhibition against special legislation, make classifications so long as such classifications are not “fanciful, capricious, arbitrary, or unnatural.” That the Legislature has such power is the uniform holding of the courts. State v. Holtgreve, 58 Utah 563, 200 P. 894, 26 A. L. R. 696; Blackmarr v . City Court of Salt Lake City, 86 Utah 541, 38 P. (2d) 725. The converse is equally well established,…