Show COAL COMPANY LOSES SUIT TO RECOVER TAXES Taxes paid by Pleasant Valley Coal company Ita to Carbon county on land which the company believed it had purchased from the state but which I the tho state had no right to sell cannot be recovered according to a decision handed down by Judge George Christensen Chris Chrls- of ot the Seventh district The county was represented by W W. A. A Hilton assistant attorney general and W. W Glen Harmon the county at attorney attorney attorney at- at torney at the tho time of or the suit Mr Hilton and Mr Harmon argued that If Ir there was a mistake it was a mistake mistake mistake mis mis- take of law and that the statute c covering cov- cov vering v- v ering rebate of taxes erroneously Collected collected collected col col- did dIet not apply The area In question is part of the theet et coal land which the state te at one time assumed that it owned outright but which under department of the interior in interior in- in rulings and federal statutes Is property of the state slate only as lon lonas long longas as the state reserves the minerals for lease |