Show County Sells Land For New Hospitals By LE ANN BLODGETT About 50 persons applauded as they stood on the Davis County Courthouse steps Thursday and witnessed the auction of two parcels of land designated for hospitals in Davis GEORGE MERCEY of Hospital Corporation of America submitted the only bid for the land in The bid was for per acre for County Clerk Rod who conducted the told the group the minimum bid would be per Wendell Cherry of Corporation gave a verbal bid of per acre fur acres in The minimum bid had been set by the county at THE PROVISIONS of the auction were according to the Utah providing for a cash The which was purchased through a bond election for hospitals was declared surplus and put up for auction when federal funds for hospital building fell COUNTY ATTORNEY Bennett Peterson explained the procedures that will be followed until the pending litigation on this property are cleared He said the recent suit to try to restrain the county from selling the lands has no but there is no way the court can intervene in a party's right to Since there is that the buyers and the county will enter into an agreement that will provide for the possibility of the land being tied up in court THE MONEY will be deposited with the county in escrow for a period of 30 days during the period of a possible At the expiration of that if there are no new law suits or appeals challenging the county's right to sell or convey this the escrow agreement will be The buyers and seller will enter into the escrow agreement for a maximum period of one if law suits are WHEN Commissioner Stanley Smoot was asked if he had been fearful of another bidder he with a the terms say cash on the day of the with that much money there aren't too many people who can come up with There was a lot of talk about other persons who wanted to but it's different when It comes to the Both hospital corporations had secured options on alternate property in the event they did not secure the highest bid lb |