Show ECCLES r INTERESTS RETAIN COAL LAND lie long legal I 1 attic 0 flat at I 1 us as been lee a since january 1907 over the title to what itt 1 commonly known knon ae as the sweet school ave section tion wee was endel saturday ty 1 the decision wired from washington ington to attorney F W senior of fait palt lake city being a decision deci elon by afo re secretary of the interior ia in faor of leroy eccles george 11 davis william A wright and tile lie heirs of george 11 II tribe all of ogden the tract in controversy contro veray GOO acree acres of coal land in carbon county that is valued at more than half a mil lion dollar dollars in tn 1000 the lan lani t was pure purchase hasel 1 by arthur heet from the state of utah in lit 1907 the united mates instituted ai ait oit it in lit the fe federal leral court to set alde aide a ide the claim of sweet on the ground that known valuable coal land and dil till not rot pass to the state of altah its school land grant judge john k Mani marshall liall of the tile federal court jilch in basor f tin government thie this decision akel tion was mas reverend reve reer reed sed bv tie firt nit court of appeals it the circuit court ourt of ht st laul I 1 auto which hell hel I 1 that eoal coal inn linnis la did taos to tl tie tatt of I 1 tali tall under its school lani grant 1 vp 1 the rp of this decision de elmon the unite 1 ten fuel o 0 company purchased sd fd the hta land from arthur A sweet w the case wai was c arriel to the united r tates supreme court which c court ourt I 1 on january 28 1918 rc rever versel seit the lec slon lilon of the circuit court of appeals an ani I 1 it is dainel the decision ilon previously yen it re I 1 ly I 1 Y judge marshall hoi hot ling that known kno n valuable able coal lanis lil lit rot pas pass to tl e state of utah under ita its school lani ian I 1 grant n the meantime leroy feelen an ani I 1 associates applied to purchase pur chaee the lani as coal land from the united state states ani ant pall there foi fox the government pur chane chase price ot 1130 the united states luel fuel company protested the right of eccles an ani I 1 oth ers er to pur eLase the land conten hrs that it be a preference right to lease the lani by reason of its lt reliance upon the tile decision rendered I 1 iv v the circuit court of appe appeals alt rn tal I 1 by of its large male upon aI adjacent jacent land lands Irel to extracting the coal from tho the land corn com foreng the sweet school section the lp decision dec ilon of saturday wieh chih ts Is fial denies the claim of the unite Stai states ates fuel 1 company ani ant awards the land to ecer and his as sot ocia clates teg |