Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-02-18 | Page 2 | City Joins County in Gas Tax Fight

City Joins County in G Gas s Tax Fight Eight The city commission Thursday y authorized the city attorney to file tile filea tilea a complaint in intervention on be behalf behalf be- be half of Salt Lake City In the tile recent suit of H. H E. E Crockett for fol the statu of ot Utah against Salt Lake county to test the gasoline tax taic law a as Ap p- p plied pIled to counties S The state Is suing t to effect gaso gase- line Ine taxes from front Salt Lake county claiming that the county as js liable to o the tile tax The county has refused to o pay the tax on the ground ground- that such a tax lax I ig unlawful and cannot be e legally legall collected from counties The city Is-f Is interested In-interested In the the same same Issue and will join in hi the tile suit to have Tave the matter determined by the courts with reference to cities as asWell aswell well weIl as counties f