Show g w WANT TO RECOVER p TAXES PAlO STATE i. i t K Persons Who Paid Assessments Assess- Assess P ments Under Drainage LawE Lavi Law Lav LawI I i E Will Test the Statute ja k WILL SUE THE COUNTY I r Utah Light Company to Conduct Litigation Liti- Liti i gation gation Drainage Drainage Law Un- Un UnI I constitutional YI 1 hi To determine whether taxes levied led 7 end and paid bald under tho the drainage ell district strict law law- recently declared unconstitutional u ky by the supreme court can be recovered reco ji 01 ered cd h by the property owners suit c against R Salt Lake county Is to be filed l i. In tho rho Third district court h by tho the Utah LI Light ht and Railway company COmpAn Notice to lo this effect has been served 2 as upon County Count Attorney I I. I E. E Willey h by ff 1 attorneys for the company The Issue t I Involved ol applies to all districts of oC tho the thoP P state 7 Drainage e districts were created In Inor IT or 7 man many sections of oC th the state stat after alter the tho thoP P law aw way was passe passed and thousands of or dol- dol lh Jars tars havo ha been paid In assessments M As the law Is declared void volel and Its purposes cannot be he carried out and no benefit can IJ be derived d b by those taxed it front from the money moner paid on their assessments assess assess- all Interested d In know know- i M ments they theO are arc knot knot- l i Ju Jug Ing whether thc they have ha any means of tf securing a refund of the mone money paid n w or whether thc they must mark It down a as asu u a dead deall loss Joss 1 The suit to be filed here will be watched closely closet In other districts whore drainage e districts were or organized and ands r should the court decide In iii favor or of orthe the s plaintiff In this action it doubtless would be the signal I for the filing filing- of or Innumerable suits In other counties a The J light ht company compan owns property In Inthe the northwest drainage 1 district in this tits county and this property was assessed n a under the now unconstitutional drain drain- n 1 age r-c r law Jaw M When hen the supreme court In the ca case c e cU f Mont Johnm JohnW John John- U all of Df Benjamin Argyle a against m W Ron son treasurer of or Utah county count declared h the law Jaw unconstitutional a question a mi was as at once raised by the tho property owners In the drainage c districts as to S a whether they could recover reco the taxes and they appealed to the tho county count commissioners corn com missioners of oC Salt S Lake county for rek re- re k fri dress Upon advice ad of the c county attorney nt- nt torney the commissioners advised the e rt property owners not to PRY pay as assessments I x for this year car if they had hall not already r been pal paid but that the county was not p f responsible for the taxes already paid The refusal to refund has prompted the tho thou theL u L cult planned |