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Show RULING AWAITED IN IMPORTANT SUIT Salr Lake. Feb. 12. No ruling has1 as yet been made by Judge Tillman D. Johnson of the federal court, either approving or overruling the demurrer entered by the defendants in the suit brought by a number of independent Utah coal producers against the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande and Oregon Short Line railroads and the Utah Fuel company com-pany This is the statement of John W. Christy, clerk of the federal court : "The plaintiffs had secured a tem- porary restraining order direeting the, defendants to abandon alleged discrim-' ination against the plaintiffs The defendants de-fendants thereupon filed a demurrer, m questioning whether the Interstate commerce commission and not the federal fed-eral court were the body having jurisdiction. juris-diction. "Judge Johnson has had this demurrer de-murrer under consideration for more than a week, but so far has not passed upon it A story to the effect that he had overruled the demurrer, printed print-ed by a Salt Lake paper Sunday, evidently evi-dently had as its basis the fact that Judge Johnson on Saturday overruled the demurrer of the defendant in another an-other railroad case. This was in the suit of the Western Pacific railroad against David Mattson as secretary of state, in which the railroad seeks to recover more than $18,000 of fees paid in connection with the filling of papers Of incorporation. It is alleged that these fees were illegally collected " oo b |