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Show AUTOMOBILE TOWING HELD TO BE LEGAL Salt Lake, Sept. 20. A ruling affecting af-fecting the towing of "dead" or un-powered un-powered automobiles through the city streets was handed down yesterday In tho supreme court In favor of the Stu-debaker Stu-debaker company and against the original orig-inal complainant, John Walter Mus-grave. Mus-grave. The original plaintiff sought damages dam-ages for Injuries said to havo been received when he was run down by a string of new Studebakers which were being towed from the depot to tho salesrooms, Tho accident occurred oc-curred February 15, 1911, about 7 o'clock in tho evening, at tho Intersection Intersec-tion of Second South and Main streets. The district court, which found for the defendant company, is sustained in tho opinion handed down yesterday. The plaintiff contended that tho towing of the cars, which wero about twelve feet apart, without headlights on each car, was dangerous and that the cars should have borne lights and have had a method of signaling each other. Tho higher court holds that tho state law applies to cars in use on highways, which shall carry lights after an hour aftor sunset, and does not apply to cars In tow. |