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Show 8f S COURT Derision in Moycr Case Will AlFeet Large X umber of Cases Pending LINES RUN LATER. NOT ONES TO RE FOLLOWED City's Right to Ground for Paving Pav-ing Purposes Will Also Re Concerned. An opinion which affects a great deal of property In Salt Lako was handed j.down by tho I tali state supremo court .Monday, when It decided that the original origi-nal survey of the city Is the survey that obtains, nnd that the survey of 1S90 docs not. The opinion, in effect, also holds Hint the city cannot have additional grounds for paving: purposes. Tho case In which this opinion was given Is that In which G V. Moyor was respondent and James Langton, appellant. appel-lant. The particular piece of property affected by the opinion Is at Main and Fifth South streets. Shorn of Its legal verbiage the opinion holds that tho survey originally made, and the one under which Salt Luke City got Its ehurter. Is the one that must be taken Into account in properly measurements. measure-ments. In a large number of instances the lines of the old survey and the survey sur-vey nf 1S90 are in conflict. There arc now pending In the courts something like a dozen cases, involving the point decided de-cided Monday, either identical with or similar to the Mover case. Much Property Affected. One of these cases may serve as an example of many others. In tills instance in-stance the question arises on the navlng of J street. John Dern owns a deal of properly along that street, and the question ques-tion Is whether the city may use some of this property for paving, ("ntll this matter has been determined the paving oj J street has been delayed. In the southwestern pari of the city there arc a number of properly owners who wilt he affected by the decision. In the Moyor property case, the one on which the supreme court passed Monday. Mon-day. Improvements, acquiesced in as boundary monuments, had been established estab-lished according to the original survey. These were sought, to be changed under the survey of 1S0D in such a manner that Mr. Moyer would have several feet less of ground than he Is entitled to under the survey which was sustained by the court's opinion. Long in Courts. The Moyer case has been In the courts for eight years. In one form or another it has dragged Its length through the various legal processes until u Indgment was rendered In favor of Mr. Moyer about a year ago. That judgment was affirmed by the supreme courl Monday. It Is safe to assume, that the rule hiid down In the Moyer-Langton ease will be followed by the lower courts In determining deter-mining the points at Issue in the cases which arc pending. |