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Show DISTRICT COURT; Jury in the Scott vs. Provo City Case FOUND FOR PLAINTIFF. Particulars of the Complaint in the Speckart vs. McPherson Libel 3alt-Tiie 3alt-Tiie Mammoth Gopperopolis A (rain in Court Two trunks Fined Other Busi ness. The Dispatch announced yesterday that Philip speckart bad filed a libel suit in the First District court against D. McPherson. The buit is for $10,000.00 damages alleged to have ben sustained because of libel a published against Speckart by McPherson aa advertise ments in the Enquirer of this city. In hie conplaint Mr. Speckart alleges al-leges that "at all times hereinafter mentioned he had enjoyed en-joyed a good reputation for honesty, fair dealing and decency and respectability respecta-bility in his trade and business as a butcher and had never been suspected of selling, offering for sale, or keeping on hand for sale unwholesome meats, or the flesh of horses or ot big jawed cattle or -other diseased animals, or the flesh of animals improper for human food, ho'" had sold or offered for sale or had on hand for sale or otherwise other-wise such meats or the flesh of any Such animals." For a first cause of action Mr. Speckart alleges that McPherson well knowing the above and well knowing -that his (Speckart's) business and trade were large and lucrative and with a view to damage it did on June 19, 1895, publish in the Utah Enquirer a certain verse of so-called poetry, which meant to and did accuse hi'm (Speckart) of having cheated his customers, cus-tomers, haying been dishonest in hia trade, and particularly of having cheated his customers by furnishing them with and selling to them, and having slaughtered and kept on hand for sale, meats which were un ejund and unlit to eat, the flesh tf horses, the flesh of cows and cattle afflicted with the disease known as tbe big jaw, and tainted meats. Mr. Speckart alleges that the publication was iaise, malicious ana aeiamatory i and that by it he nas been injuied in the sum of $5,0U0.00. For a second cause of action Mr. Speckart sets forth two other advertisements adver-tisements that were published in the Enquirer referring directly to a certain horse and a certain big jawed cow with a running sore, which animals the advertisement ad-vertisement intimates were slaughtered slaught-ered by Speckart, and asserting that he (McPherson) had proofs of all he had Baid in print or otherwise concerning Speckart. Tfceee publications, Mr. Speckart alleges,have also injured him in the sum of $5,000 00. Hence he sues for 810.0CO.OO. THE MAMMOTH COPPEROPOLI8 AGAIN. Edwin Austin and William Fearon Tipping, trustees, vs. the Ajax Mining company, the American Eagle M-ning company, John Bastian, John Firth, Arthur Brown and the Utah Mining company iB the title of a suit filed in the First District court today which asks for a decree reviewing and setting aside Judgment enttred October 3, 1893, wherein John Elliott appeared as plaintiff and the American Eagle Mining Min-ing company et al as defendants, and permitting these plaintiffs to be substituted sub-stituted and admitted as plaintiffs j therein and to prosecute the crura tn final judgment in due course of law. The papers in this case ate very voluminous and set forth in detail all of the litigation that has been had over the property involved, the Mammoth Copperopolis mine of Tintic, passing through Utah courts and English courts a number of times. OTHER BUSINESS. The account i of U. S. Deputy Mar-Bhals Mar-Bhals Fowler, Henry, Berry, Bean, Payne and Rolph were allowed. Peter Greeuhalgh was appointed guardian ad litem in tbe case of Peer (jreenhalgh, a minor ys. Meadow Irrigation Irri-gation company. S. 8. Jones vs. Charlotte A, R gers et al. Decree granted as prayed for. A VAKIATION. Judge King yesterday afternoon, by way of variation of the n8ual drv and uninteresting proceedings of court called up George McGee and a Mr. Glenn, both of Eureka, who had entered en-tered the court housa in an intoxi-, cated condition and fined them $1.00 each for their offense. "I told Mr.v Marks before we came," said the spokesman for the pair "that we would get in trouble if she brought us down here, and I told my brother in-law that 1 was dead sure to get into trouble, even if my pard didn't." They g t into trouble all right, and spent the greater part of yesterday in the city jail. An order was made showing that Powers & Hiles had withdrawn as at torneys for the Bullion-BecK & Champion Cham-pion Mining company in its eult against John Beck and that Wm. C. Hall bad entered the case instead. Ttie case of C. If. Whipple vs George D. Whipple was set for hearing July 8tb, , The U. S. marshal was ordered to pay the sum of $2-11.6(1, as per diem and mileage of petit jurats who. served at tbe .Nephi May teroa conrt.- I'HX SCOTT VS. PROVO SUIT. All the evidence ia this case was of-1 fered yesterday afternoon. This morning morn-ing at 9:30 o'clock the attorneys began their arguments before the jury which occupied the whole of the forenoon until 12:15 o'clock. At 1:30 the judge charged the jury who at 3:45 retured with a verdict signed by nine juors, awarding plaintiffs $1,000 damages. |