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Show Light Plant Case Decided. Special to Tr.e Tribune. PRICK. July 5. An important rase of law was d ? i 3 e d by J i ; i k; e Oi r : s t i a n o n this rr.orninL.'. when he ruled that the state law means whai it says recard-ine recard-ine the leasing or scliimr of eif-ctrlc'lijrht or power plants. Several months aco members of the city council leased the cltv plant to J. H. Manson for a period of nve years without puttinir the question to a vote of the people. The taxpavers broueht suit to compel the city to cancel the lease, claiming it was illegal because the law was not complied with and that it was not to the best interests of the city. In ruling on the demurrer of the defendants, mayor a nd city council, the court ruled that the law was constitutional constitu-tional and the lea?e illegal. The taxpayers had also asked that the lessee be made to return to the city all revenues collected during' h!a operation opera-tion of the plant, but the court did not enter into that question of accounting on the demurrer, savin q the property must he restored to the city. Price and Fouts appeared for the taxpavers and Judge Erickson of Salt Iake and C. C. Mc-Whlney Mc-Whlney of this city for the city council. |