Show SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LICENSE Opinion Says City Ordinance Is Valid in n Every Particular e MEANS ADDED REVENUE Department May Now Collect Money Held Up For ForS S Court Cou rt Ruling A Avenues of activity an and great profit for Cor the license e department of or the city government go are aie opened up In the opinion handed down b by the Supreme court late lato yesterday Tho opinion hol holds s that thai tho lie license or ordinance un und under 11 r which tho the city Is now nos' working is Js entirely entirely en en- constitutional and vall valid 11 On November ember 27 1900 the elt city brought suit against the tho Christenson company for 01 failure to pay the merchants merchants' merchants merchants' mer mer- chants' chants license prescribed 1 b by or 01 di- di nance mince Tho The matter was vas nt at tal taken takemi en up Lip to the tIme District court on nit an nn n agreed statement of ot facts Tho The defendant company compan owed 30 coming within tho the nineteenth class cla which pro l provides es for tor forthe the tho payment of or that amount on stock valued at from 1000 to S 2000 The Supreme court hol holds 18 this ordinance or or- valid and nn 1 In answer answel to tho the contention that tho the ordinance Is not uniform and that thai It Is filled 1 with in inequalities Inequalities Inequalities In- In equalities tho the opinion says that there is no method motho of taxation ta atlon by b which equal and uniform rates can bo be reached 1 M ll it WS lib Increased t HC t Tho Thio District court which sustained 1 the he ordinance is affirmed by tho Su Su- Su- Su preme courts court's ruling Time The effect of it will be lie that the city may ma go o ahead and collect licenses under under under un un- der the or ordinance rho Tho work of the license department has been hampered hamper hamper- ed b by reason of or tho the fact that the validity va- va of the measure was attacked ell Tho The prosecution of collections under un un- un- un del der this ordinance has been beon stayed e 1 until the ren rendering of or the tho Supreme court opinion Upon that opinion hinged tho the payment of from the telephone companies for Instruments Instruments ments now in operation and the payment pay pay- ment of 25 G per car b by the Utah Light and Railway company Other licenses licenser amounting to se several soy sev eral oral thousands of dollars were also held lucid up an and tho the city's revenue will willbe willbe be ue vastly increased Increase by reason of the Supreme court opinion Wins Ins A Against In another opinion handed down own by bythe bytho the tho Supreme court Jud Judge e Lewis of ot the Third District court Is sustained It is IJ in the case of or Daniel Wolstenholme holme hoime special administrator of the estate of James Megeath against Grant H. H Smith and antl J. J E. E Darmer Darmel The suit was on a note for e c ex executed September er 13 1901 Darmer claimed that ho he was mer merely there as surety an and did not receive o nn any of time the benefits benent of th the note Dl pl tc t-c p 1 mar T thy ily 1 and not secondarily hi liable on the tho note and the tho Supreme court upholds this hits opinion Justice wrote tho the opinion and antl the other oIlier members mem ers of the Supreme Su Su- Su- Su preme reme bench ench concur Former Justice C C. F F. Durand engineer engineer engineer en en- of or the tho famous kangaroo J courtat court courtat at lot Murray was stung again yesterday ester In an opinion written b by Justice Durand Duran really wins tho case but bul his methods of conducting the Murray Justice court are arc excoriated in tho the usual brisk an and vigorous style tle of tho the Supreme court Hut Hud Xo No Jurisdiction T. T E. E Laing sued sue R. R J. J J Robinson for 1 1674 1074 G. G 7 4 on a newspaper account Duran Durand Durand Du Du- ran rand denied Robinson's Robinsons motion to dismiss dis- dis dis miss and entered Judgment although Robinson pleaded that h he hp i was not a resident of the Murray precinct RobInson Robinson Rob fob inson applied for a writ of or prohibition and Judge Ritchie found Durand Duran ha had 1 no authority and un declared the Judgment ju Judg judg- g ment mont void Durand 1 appealed In ruling on the m matter tt r the tho tho S Su- Su preme prenie court holds s that the writ or 01 prohibition should not have been resorted re resorted re- re sorted to when re are other remedies reme diet dies available At the same rome time timo the Supreme court knocks out a few provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions of the law mo modifying the writ of oC prohibition passed passe by the legislature legisla legisla- turo ture in lt 05 Tho Thu opinion holds that the legislature then made matle it moro more of ofa ofa a n writ of ot review rc Judge Ritchie Is reversed 1 The 1110 opinion opinion ion was concurrent cut and written b by Justice |