Show IS ORDINANCE VALID Question Raised Whether Water Tax TaxIs T TaxIs Is lien on Property or Simply a Claim ClaimAn An attack on th of tile the city ordinance relating to payment of tuxes taxes in Salt Late Lake City is Iii embraced in Ip ina Ipa ina a petition for an writ of man mandate man mandate mandate date directed against Frank Frunk L Hines superintendent t of waterworks and Salt I Lake Litke City The petition was yesterday filed by the Beesle Beesley Music M sic company compan companI I I through Its attorneys attorneY Cannon Cnn Irvine Irlue and andI I Snow The writ yU was Issued by Judge Ju ge M N ML NL L Ritchie RUehle sitU and made returnable at AO 10 0 Friday The file petition alleges that the company compan r occupies the second floor of the building at ii H and nd 16 46 South Main street and has paid its ith I assessment of o for the year from July Jub 1 I 1953 19 to June Tupe 30 1990 but that the city refuses r to turn on the water The facts fac In the toe once onse are arc stated to Le he that former tenants of the building refused re refused fused j to pay their water ater tax and the time superintendent of waterworks In bed Obed Obedience to section revised ordinances turned off the water This section pro provides provides vides Yides that Before the water shall be turned on again all aU delinquent water rates must be paid In full up to the end of time the term as assessed and 50 cents additional for tor expenses expanses This is con eon construed construed to mean that water wlter assessments shall be held to b bit be a lien hen against the I property instead of a claim against the water vater consumer leI and amI it is with a view yle to determine whether this thiM provision is in inI accord with the laws that the ac action I tion timi is Js brought brou h |