Show COUNCIL MEETINGS OPEN TO PUBLIC That a city council counell In Utah has n nori no o ri right bt to exclude the public or any individual Individual In In- cliv ual from its sessions or when i it t is meeting as as al a n committee of tho the whom whole e te was teas tho the gist t of an opinion handed down own by bv tho the court vc yesterday ter R The ruling n was made in the case of l A. A P. P Acord a newspaper man at Provo against ug the members of the city council coun cotin cil of that place and l William Wilham K i Henr Henry the city cit marshal Juno 18 8 1906 Acord Acor aU attended n a met meeting n of the tho council That t bod body body- resolved re- re solved holved it itself lf into a committee om of oi tho th o whole and excluded the public c. c Acord Acor d refused to leave and was expelled by tho city cit marshalIn marshalIn marshal In either cither form of or session says say a Associate Justice Frick Prick who writes write the tho opinion public business is bein being g transacted and discussed ll which tho the statute contemplates shall be open t to toI 0 I the public I The The fhe opinion confirms the decision o of f tho the lower court which decided i in n favor faor of Acord and awarded him hint damages damages dam dam- am a ages cs of 1 cent Tho The opinion is concurred concurred concurred con con- in b by Chief Chic Justice McCarty and Justice |