# Keigley v. Bench, City Recorder

> Utah Supreme Court · April 19, 1939 · 97 Utah 69

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3985787

## Case

- **Full name:** KEIGLEY Et Al. v. BENCH, City Recorder
- **Court:** Utah Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 19, 1939
- **Citations:** 97 Utah 69; 89 P.2d 480; 122 A.L.R. 756; 1939 Utah LEXIS 46
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Moffat
- **Judges:** McDonough, Larson, Wolfe, Moffat, Pratt
- **Cited by:** 36 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3985787

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that the legislature contemplated that a governing body of a city has administrative as well as legislative functions, and they intended to limit referendum proceedings to legislative acts
- holding that issuing bonds to finance construction of municipal electric plant and system was legislative in nature and subject to referendum

## Opinion text

MOFFAT, Chief Justice.
I concur in the result reached in the opinion of Mr. Justice McDONOUGH and in what is said by Mr. Justice LARSON in his opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

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