| Show G V G FEDERA T ON NS County Must Reimburse it for Money Advanced SUPREME COURT DECISION Judgment of the Trial Court Affirmed by Which Those Who Advanced Money to Salt Lak County to Prosecute Pros-ecute tho Furniture Boodle Cases Will be Reimbursed Title Quieted to Lands Acquired by the Recession of Utah Lake Attachment Suit of Sherman vs Mills Dismissed The Supreme court yesterday handed down an opinion afllrmlng the judgment Judg-ment of the trial court in the case of lho Civic Federation of Salt Lake City against Salt Lake county appellant In which the judgment of the trIal court Is ufllrmcd The opinion was written by Justice Miner and concurred In by Chief Justice Bartch Justice Baskln dissented The Civic Federation was an organization organi-zation composed of L S Hills V Yo S McCornick M II Walker T G Webber Web-ber J K Dooly O J Salisbury GeoM Geo-M Scott Spencer Clawson A W Mc Cune A F Holden Ceo Romney S II Hill J J Daly Rjchard Mackintosh Mackin-tosh Geo Y Wallace P H Lannun Ceo M Cannon and the Utah Commercial Com-mercial and Savings bunk who advanced ad-vanced to the county on October 20 l 1S05 SG3915 when the county treasury was empty and thereby enabled County Coun-ty Attorney Whlllomore to continue the prosecution of the city and county building boodle cases The representatives representa-tives of the county refused to pay back the amount loaned and the action was brought to recover It with interest To time complaint the defendant interposed in-terposed a demurrer on the ground thai thc County Attorney had no authority au-thority to borrow money that the mtncy never passed through the county coun-ty treasury but was expended entirely by the County Attorney as he saw 11 tolL to-lL was also urged that the special statute passed In relation to refunding money advanced to any ollicer of the county for legitimate purposes was unconstitutional un-constitutional Judgo Cherry overruled lImo demurrer and the defendant refusing re-fusing to answer judgment was entered I en-tered for the plaintiff which ruling Is now ulllrmed |
