State ex rel. Ellerbeck v. Salt Lake City

This is an application to obtain from this court a writ of prohibition' restraining Salt Lake City and its mayor, recorder, and treasurer from issuing, negotiating, or selling the municipal bonds hereinafter referred to.

The material facts, as presented by the petition of the relator and the answer of defendants, are as follows: On the 21st day of November, 1904, the city council of Salt Lake City duly passed an ordinance which was approved by the mayor of the city, which ordinance provided for and ordered a special election for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said city…