Show COAL CASE is AIRED BEFORE COURT jennigs and sharp heirs are forced to show their hands on manday in salt lake city before judge enoksen th somewhat som what garnons coal case wag arad by judge hall and attorney mcbroom for the bernings Jern ings and sharp heirs tha pa and by attorney wedgewood and judge F E woods for the county the defendant the action is one to quiet title last summer after the county had biver tided the sale of the coal land asich lies E nerv quite extensively the jenings and sharp heirs stopped the sale through an im unction since that time the records of the various proceed ings upon which county based its claim to a title to the property by lea son of unpaid taxes bv the heirs ind a de 1 sale in which the county was itself the purchaser have been thoroughly conf through and it is ti cally conceded by the for the county that the county title is shida the county how ever maintains it still holds a lien upon the property for taxes dating back to the year 1897 when the property was duly assessed to jenn and sharp and advertised for del taxes and bought in bv the county upon the failure of the heirs to such taxes the o 0 bondly served to stra ahten out several kinks in the contentions between the plain tiffs and defendant but the matter is still to be heard upon the real merits of the case but in what manner the case will come before th court ao ain i is not yet clear to the laity it looks like the heirs were sparring for t me and that ganv of them are quite willing to 1 all back taxes and take pos session of the property while many of the heirs whose interests in the prop eirv are quite insignificant are holding back and preventing anything beaw ac complis hed toward the qu eting of the ditl the county under the peculiar liar condition of affairs and the irregular proceedings of its officers in the assess ing and bale of this property a dozen or fifteen years ago is will ng to allow the jenings and shan heirs to redeem on payment of back taxes which to abo it ff the action of that port on of the heirs who are p bitting ip tl e fight wo lid indicate thit they hope to the payment of some per on of topse back taxes buit nt all of them indications ho o 0 point to the prospects thit th heirs may aboa get together and tender the th payment of the delinquent taxes |