Show JUDGE HOWELL HOLDS COURT the flint case is heard in district court A month will elapse before a decision casion 0 can be reached both sides confident the lone iona expected herrina of the liquor cae against flint held before judge judee how honnell ell of ogden on Alon monday daN evi eva B erb was at the official stenographer and the courtroom vas crowded when nhen ane case ws was called th thi caie is entitled george georce flint vs Ns erastus johnson and comesup on a 11 w writ rit asking that the defendant be prohibited from passing ce on oil the plaintiff who was convicted of illicit liquor selling under the richfield city ordinances the writ of prohibition is asked on the grounds that the city prohibition ordinance is not operate ope e because it was vas not Pr recorded in the opening of the cave the plaintiff olain tiff asked leave leane to amend its complaint comp lawt by alleging leeine al that the eit cit ordinances of 1893 1898 makes the record inc ina of the ordinances mandatory on the part of the rge recorder order before they become operative and that the revised ordinances require practically the same thing thine this was objected to by the attorneys for the city on the grounds that it injected new matter into the case which they had bad no opportunity to prepare for the objection of the attorneys att orneN s was overruled ON and the plaintiff was permitted to a amend m end fhe tt ornes consumed the day in submitting submit arguments and authorities to the court the attorneys attorn eNs for the plaintiff phin tiff contend that the recording of the ordinance is a itil ital part of the validity of the ordinances ordin inces and the duty is mandatory that the failure to record this thia particular ordinance in the book of ordinances makes it in atie e and convictions can not be had dundei it the attorn attorneys eNs for the city claim that the of the ordinance is a ministerial act arid and does not interfere with the moderation oDe ration of the ardi it hs has been proP properly erIv passed approved and published the arguments arcu ments were made on monday but as the amendment had been made to the complaint the cites attorneys were acre given eiven ten dis dans in which to submit a brief on the points in voled the attorneys on the opposite side will then be given an opportunity to answer the brief so that a decision will not likely be handed aown within 30 days |