Show r isr THE SHEEP TA CASE 1 1l l Constitutionally of the Law Ordered i I Before Judge Korrell I S I I I S HENHEFER ESTATE CASE I 5 COHPLAI3SFT AND CHOSS C02C1 i II PLAINT BOTH DISMISSED jI j I i Salt Lake City Sued For Damages j j Caused By the Discharge of Sewerage Sew-erage Bcceiver Officers Compel I r satioa Tncurance Iffoney Litigation I Litiga-tion Report of the Ibex Beceiver I f District Court Orders and Pro V I bat Rug Judge Non ell was yesterday occu i M < l 11 lu coring a Summit county case r r ml joitiiiiec I was that involving S 5 i jjstUulionality of the sheep ta 5 5 th carp 2 up demurrer and which S S it cast riU title of the cause is Summit v < S i i by John L Boyden county against Hanford Gustavson The S 5 Sl i iii sets up that between lay 10 S Lud Aug 23 1897 the defendant V 3 Ur < d 2000 sheep without obtaining i utjSe therefor or paying the license lie thereon a he should have done U > virtue of a ordinance passed on April 20 1837 by the board of county commissioners of Summit county requiting re-quiting that owners of sheep shall pay u license for pasturing the same on the range The license imposed on owners ot 2000 and less than 3000 sheep amounted to 100 for which plaintiff prays judgment The object of the license was to raise revenue and the defendant alleged that such a ordinance was unconstitutional and on that ground demurred to the complaint County Attorney Shields of Summit county arid Mr P L Williams made the arguments for the plaintiff and ex Senator Arthur Brown and Mr James 1 Moyle represented the defendant The case Is 3 most Important one involving The volving probabiy over 100000 v J county commissioners of a number of fr counties in the state passed ordinances Jf similar to that enacted by the Summit if county people The amount of the tax jf varies from 3c to lOc a head on the sheep and in some counties the amount ft of money which would be realized from J this ta would exceed annually all the other revenues of the count and would exceed the whole expenditures of said counties Judge Norrell after hearing the arguments guments took it under advisement |