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HIALEAH SUES HIALEAH PARK Seeks Big Sum Due on Ten Per Cent Tax on Admissions to Track Papers Filed. MIAMI, Fla., April 12. Complete details of the city of Hialeahs lawsuit against the Miami Jockey Club, operators of Hialeah Park race track, were disclosed when Martin F. Whelan, Jr., Hialeah city attorney, and the law firm, Mitchell D. Price and Charles W. Zaring, associate counsel, filed papers in circuit court explaining the basis of the suit. The city is suing to collect a 10 cent tax on each admission ticket sold at the race track during the past six seasons. The tax was established on January 20, 1926, subsequently re-enacted on December 22, 1931, but has gone uncollected since the racing season of 1930-31. CLAIM VAST SUM. According to the papers filed the aggregate amount due the city is ,077,481, plus 0,000 in interest. The city wants to collect ten cents for each of the 154,793 tickets sold in 1931-32, 276,281 In 1932-33, 374.612 in 1933-34, 443,587 in 1934-35, and 351,750 in 1935-36. Decision to start the court action was reached at a meeting of the Hialeah city council on March 23, when Councilman Carl Ault, in urging the step, charged the tax evasion as one of the reasons the city officials were employed at the race .track.
