Show CITY W WINS ITS SUIT SOU AGAINST LIGHTING COMPANY COM FOR TAX May Nay Collect in Meter Meter- Tax for Past Three Years Unless tho tha supreme court overrules District District District Dis Dis- Judge F F. C C. C Loofbourow the Utah Light and R Railway company must pay to the city a tax of oC 1 a 0 year on each meter which It has in use in this city Judge Loofbourow handed down an opinion this morning In which ho he holds that the city ordinance levying the tax taxIs taxIs taxIs Is legal Tho The ordinance authorizing tho the tax was passed In 1910 by the last American administratIon ad ad- ministration The street car company refus refused to pay the tax on the ground KroUn that the ordinance W was g not cons constitutional The case caze was taken In Into int court by the city more than two years ago aso but It was not until about thirty days daya ago that both tildes sides filed their briefs In tho the case It Is understood that the street car company compan will appeal tho the case caso to the tho supreme su su- su- su preme court Should tho the higher court sustain the opinion handed down by Judge Loofbourow It will mean that the company company com corn pany m must sl pay tho the lax tax for or the tho last three years amounting to about and a a. tax lax of ot 1 a year for each meter motor In use during the life of ot the franchise of oC the company which Is la for fifty years It Is estimated 1 that the revenue which the city should receive on this one tax would be over |