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Show Lynch Ordered to iH Assess Bank Stocks in SALT LAKE. July 15 The supreme HBjjjjy court of the state yesterday directed BHssI ! James B Lynch, ussessor of Salt Lake HlEra county to place upon the assessment bbbsjL$ rolls of the count) certain property, H eliminate all deductions from bank I' 1 stocks except those made by him for fiV the cash value ( the r--a estate owned I t ii ban) s in the I J The of a VbssV I peremptory writ of mandate. The opin- IK I Ion was written by Justice Alberr j. Weber and Is concurred In by the full IsTw bench Justice .1 E Prick writins 1 view In sustaining the opinion. 11 Salt Lake count '"n.i ol commis- 17 , sloners InstKuted proceedings ln the supreme court in which they isked - sWft writ of mandate against James 1.. HsbshD Lynch as assessor of Salt Lake counr contmanding him to assess certain bVLbswJ property which he ss county assessor HH refused to assets and tax. and direct- bVsbVH Ing him to correct the method of tav- LbbbbbvS Ing bank itock, which method plain- Bsssavl tiffs contend is not authorized by law VbbbW and which, In effect, destroys th- um- W. ' formlty of taxation requlr'-d by law. tBBBBIIV The commissioners allege that .when VswJcsl the.v learned that certain property Was BBBBsVdi not assessed and that the vvrons: me:n- sWsH'a od was used In issesslng bank stoc 1 m '11 they entered an order directing the as- lBJ sessor to assess the property and b Bh; adopt a cnrre t method for assessing BM . e bank stock; that the assessor refused BP ' to comply with this order. HK. |