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Show Bbh t 'i'1,1')IK ls t0 Vje no inoro dan?lng in PBI school hotter, of this dUte. This l'i ilii HI imrjiOrto'f rt ruling landed dovVn 'by BVK Jiisiico McCnrtr, and crJucurrcdin by BVR Chief. Justice jlaskiu , pod Auoclnte BHP iTuitce )l'irtqh, of the sdpreroa court. BBl ,'l'he earn thtt brbught forth, tho above BBr .fiillnir, orlgfnatcd in the Alplffa Fchool BBS irllil,. Utah county, and lias been B 3lri?rwhed XIS cdppijprq tUrough- BV ''''' ,,i" "'-'e Tho oiiln-j re-crsc. H S BrI mmmwMPitifHr(l wriii.i i " in.rtu 'the declsiorf of Ihe lower court. Afl6r cniimcratlng the facts In tho case, Justice McCorty closes ns follows: "It must bo conceded that neither thb statu lioriinypolltlcalBiibdlvlslon tlicre-of tlicre-of could legally levy and collect ft tax for thepurposo of building a dunce ball, and should such a thing ho attempted any taxpayer whoe property would be subject to'such a tax could bring an action ac-tion in a court of equity and restrain its collection, Tills being to, it necessarily neces-sarily follows thai n board of trustees have'no right, and it would be In violation vio-lation of their sworn duty for them, as Is proposed In tills ease, to, In eifect, convert a public school building Info ft public and privftto danco hall. . . . Not only would tlio proposed use of Hie school building be opposed, as nbovo stated, to public policy, but in diiect violation of the provisions of tho statute stat-ute under which tho defendants attempt at-tempt to justify and defend their action." |