COPE v. TORONTO

No. 8967.

8 Utah 2d 255 (1958)

332 P.2d 977

J. AUSTIN COPE ET AL., PLAINTIFFS, v. LAMONT F. TORONTO, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF UTAH, DEFENDANT, RALPH CHILD, CLYDE OLSEN, J. VAUGHAN WILCOX, ALTON PACKARD, AND DEAN PARK, INTERVENORS.

Supreme Court of Utah.

October 29, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richards, Bird & Hart, Salt Lake City, for plaintiff.

E.R. Callister, Jr., Atty. Gen., Robert B. Porter, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Howard, Frazier & Lewis, Provo, for intervenors.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs seek an extraordinary writ in the nature of mandamus to compel the Secretary of State, Lamont F. Toronto, to notify all county clerks in the state of Utah that the initiative petition, which he heretofore certified as proper to include on the general election ballot, should be removed therefrom and not submitted to the vote of the people on November 4, 1958.

The law sought to be voted upon under the provisions for initiative legislation...

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