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Show DECISION IN FAVOR OF SALT LAKE CITY Salt Lake, Sept 17. By a decision of tho supreme court yesterday in the case of Alexander Stott and others against Salt Lake City, the city is saved from a loss of about ?100,000 in connection with the building of sidewalks side-walks in Oakley addition. Stott and other property owners, against whom special assessments wero levied to pay for the sidewalks, sued to enjoin the city from collecting collect-ing the tax. They contended that after aft-er ho city had ordered the improvement improve-ment and adopted specifications calling call-ing for a three-Inch base and a one-inch one-inch topping, tho board of public works changed tho specifications, after aft-er the contract waB let, and ordered a monolithic type of sidewalk. It was argued that this change in the specifications specifi-cations after the contract was let nullified nul-lified the ordinance authorizing the Improvement. In the district court the contention was BUBtalned and the city was enjoined en-joined from collecting the tax. The city appealed to tho supreme court, which finds for the city, reverses the district court, sets aside the injunction injunc-tion and orders the case dismissed. It is hold by the supreme court that thero is nothing to show that the property was not fully benefited to the amount of tho tax by the construction con-struction of the monolithic sidewalks and, in the nbsence of any evidence that the terms of the contract had bGcn broken or that tho property owners own-ers had suffered thereby, it rules that the plaintiffs have no redress. |