Kimball v. Grantsville City
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the Third District Court, Hon. A. N. Cherry, Judge. Action to restrain the collection of a city tax levied upon property of the plaintiff for the year 1897 by the authorities of Grantsville City, a city of the third class, incorporated under the act of the territorial Legislature. The lands on which the tax in controversy was levied are situated about one and one-half miles from platted and built-up portions of the city and are used for agricultural purposes.
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Appeal from the Third District Court, Hon. A. N. Cherry, Judge. Action to restrain the collection of a city tax levied upon property of the plaintiff for the year 1897 by the authorities of Grantsville City, a city of the third class, incorporated under the act of the territorial Legislature. The lands on which the tax in controversy was levied are situated about one and one-half miles from platted and built-up portions of the city and are used for agricultural purposes. At the trial a portion of these lands was held to be within the range of municipal benefits, subject to the city tax, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBaetch, C. J.
This action'was brought to restrain the collection of a city tax levied upon the property of the respondent for the- year 1897, by the local authorities of Grantsville City. It appears that Grantsville City is a municipal corporation of the third class, incorporated by act of the territorial Legislature, Sec. 1511, C. L. U., 1888, and its name and boundaries were “perpetuated ” under Section 311, B. S., 1898. The city’s charter provides for a city government with power, among other things, to levy and collect taxes for city purposes on all taxable property within its corporate limits. C. L.…
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