Show I f A Broken Contract t Yesterday Judge Zane rendered a decision de-cision in the case of Loomis against PIcknrct et a1 This was the settlement of a suit on a contract hich file plaintiff plain-tiff alleged he was entitled to payne t for part fulfillment of but defendants claimed he hud broken the contract The defendants W L Pickard H S Campbell and Mr Shurtleff took a contract to carry a semiweekly mail between be-tween Astoria Or and Olympia W T and sublet aportion of it to Loomis The mail was carried a part of the time when Loomis withdrew leaving the part of the road which he had agreed to carry on without service The result was the defendants contract with the governmentwas forfeited and a counter claim of 6000 was set up I against Loomis demand After considering con-sidering thfe evidence the judge rendered ren-dered a decision in favor defendant |