Show TO RESIST THE LEVY An Injunction to B Issued Against the Collector All the Banks Save the AmerI r National Are in the Combine Ala i E the Tax All of the national and state banks of the city with the exception of the American National bank propose to resist the levj of I taxes made against thom and with that I point in view have employed Rawlins Critchlow Judge Sutherland to secure an injunction against County Collector L G Hardy to prevent him from collecting the same An injunction was applied for just before the close of the Third district court yesterday on behalf of the Deseret Savings bank and the Utah National bank Judge Zane refused to issue the injunction instanter but made an order requiring the collector to show cause on Saturday why such an injunction should not issue Today suits will be filed to enjoin the collector by the Bank of Commerce Commercial Com-mercial National Desoret National T R Jones Co McCorntck CojNational Bank of the Republic State BatiKjjrf Utah Union National Utah Commercial and Savings Utah Title Insurance and Trust Companys Savings Wells Fargo Co and Zions Savings Bank and Trust company com-pany The State banks will resist the payment of taxes for overvaluation of property or in other words will ask a reduction in their taxes of 33 per cent The national banks will refuse to pay the whole tax unless so ordered by a court of last resort upon the ground that they are exempt from taxation under the national currency act and also on account of the exemption of other monied capital in tbe territory The aggregate amount involved is close to 2iOW that being tho amount of taxes assessed against the different banks The case will be hardly fought on both sides the county attorney proposing to resist toe injunction prayed for and the standing of the attorneys engaged by the banks promises one of toe greatest legal tilts ever bad on any like question in the territory terri-tory |