Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-06-10 | Page 8 | Court to Hear Gravel Motions

GOURTTOHEAR GBILiTIONS Legal action to set aside the leas, of lbs .1st. gravel pit at Mount to the HeJaelt Construction company and th. order for tl.00 worth of ssnd and ravel given by th. .tat. and predl-eated predl-eated on tha lease, will open before District Judge lversoh Wsdnesday. when attorney, for J. W. Mellon and the Mellen Hand and Gravel company and W. A. Hilton, asslstsnt attorney general, will argue qualifying motion, entered by the .tat. The suit to snnul the lease wss entered en-tered by the Mellen attorneys several weeks ago and named the following atate officials aa parties to the ac-Hon: ac-Hon: J. T. Oldroyd. atate land com-mlaeloner; com-mlaeloner; N. c. 1'oulson, Oeorge D Casto and Ira R. Browning, former state road commissioners, and John 11 Olenn, director of finance and purchase. pur-chase. The construction company 1. also a party defendant. Thsatrguments Wednesday will hs on motions to strike about three-fourth, of th. matter from the Mellon complaint, com-plaint, thla matter being specified aa "sham. Irrelevant and redundant and does not pertain to any rauaa of sction set forth In the complaint"; and another an-other asking separation of ths lesse and purchase actions A demurrer to the complaint on general and specific grounds will he argued Thursday Will- ... , . wm given vne matter mat-ter when ths lease waa being negotiated negoti-ated and the original agreement wss altered when protests sgalnst Its terms and the manner of Us consuination became general. The rewriting of ths lease; refusal of stats officials to consider con-sider other application, and the final terms of the document resulted In the Mellen action. An order for material based an the lease and made, sccord-Ing sccord-Ing to allegations, without statutory authority, gave rise to the additional action against Director Glenn.