THATCHER & YOUNG LAWYERS FIRST SECURITY BANK BUILDING OGDEN, UTAH ROY D, THATCHER LE ROY B. YOUNG PAUL THATCHER February The Attorney General Washington, D. C. Res pag o Bt. Be of Uy « vs. OPrownl! Louls, i ssourd References KTsST:ue Attention: EMesere 1940 the United eer we Company & 6, States thouas J, Sheehan, Collector ODay Zimmerman and Pergler. Gentlemen: We are sending you by Hr. Pergler in his recent The main file is indexed for to the enc those Left are to to the herewith the information recussted conference with us at &t. Louis. your convenience. The references the paragraphs right indieate in Mr. the Fach page symbol as of @ particuler document the decument itself. files the Browning We in have gone own end we believe we in any of these files inquiry. Ye which may have are cable to him carefully office, on June the beare the same identifying through the correspondence ur. Baxter's however, written 18, to to Mr. its contents, whether Brownings The 1f office, 1952, find VYal marked one question was has A-l16. file, and in our copy of eae letter following I have the hed search and he remember such reports o Letter written. been raised a from collected any Browming Browning's office moneger meke a special that he eannot find it. No one seems to nor memoranda in have included coples of sll the letters which are at all pertinent te your unable, been Pergler's documents tax a number of times as thse purchaser «nc we to insisted thet they did not. There were, of course, some chenges in prices, and & recent decision of a trial court suggests thet any inerease in price made after the law became est nerare must be considered not able to as passing see how the the tax on increases possiblybe so construed, Sut we entirely immaterisl. We offered including the interest. to made the purchaser. fe are by can the Browmi ngs submit that the cuestion is to accept « refund of $25,000.00, Scholefield, pared for you a statement, which we compromise offer contemplates that Yells #16,4238.72 in taxes in excess of the emount Brommings by incressse of prices. way of and Baxter have OP a enclose, showing that our the United States shell retein received by