Show COUNTY SCHOOL TAX Suit to Enjoin Its Collection In This City A suit was yesterday filed in the district court by Powers Straup Lippman on behalf of Lydia G Merrill and against County Tax Collector John I D Spencer which has for its object the testing of the validity of the I county school tax in so far as Salt Lake city is concerned It is set out j I in the complaint that a county school tax of 2 mills was levied for the benefit of the district schools within and without 11 with-out Salt Lake city and within Salt Lake county This tax at the 2 mill levy would produce a total of 8701298 of which sum 7195626 would come I from Salt Lake city alone and Salt I Lake city it is alleged would pay into the tax fund 30580 more than it would receive back according to the number of school children It is then set forth that the board of education controls the public schools of I the city and that a special tax is vied under the direction of the board for i the support of these schools and out I of its funds pays the principals teachers teach-ers and all other expenses incidental I to carrying on the schools In the year 1893 it is stated the difference between be-tween the county school tax paid by Salt Lake City and the amount receive I ceived by the board of education was I 3444431 In 1894 it was 2709743 and in 1895 2863245 in each case against Salt Lake City The county school tax under these circumstances is alleged to be illegal and then it is set out that such tax was assessed against property of the plaintiff in sums of 45 188 and I 10024 for the year 1896 that the same thing has been done in the case of thousands of other people in this city I and plaintiff prays for a temporary retraining re-training order to prevent the defendant defend-ant from proceeding to collect any part of the tax within Salt Lake City pending pend-ing the hearing of the suit and that after the hearing the temporary injunction in-junction be made permanent Short Orders The petition of the F W Hanson Produce company for the appointment of a receiver for the Salt Lake Grain company com-pany in place of the assignee was argued at considerable length before Judge Ritchie and taken under advisement advise-ment F W Christensen vs St Marks hos I pital ten days stay of proceedings granted to file statement on motion for a new trial I Clayton R Turrell vs Salt Lake and I L Anseles Railway company till November 15 given defendant to serve statement on motion for a new trial Petit Juror Theron Geddes was excused ex-cused to December 1 and Philip Neder until November 2 John Wood till Monday Mon-day Ed Kneass for the term Theo W Whiteley till Thursday and C H Linck till Monday |