Show LAW AND MOTION CASES STILL OCCUPY THE ATTEXTIOX OF CHIEF JUSTICE MERIUTT New Citizens Keep Coming John Hickmau Pleads Guilty to the Charge of Petit Larceny Dispute Over the Quality of a Quantity of Hay Yesterday was an interesting day in the courts Chief Justice Merritts time was mgstly occupied with cases on the law and motion calendar and the lower courts were practically Idle Law and Motion Cases E W Duncan vs Pearson judgment by default Edward Bevan vs Adam M Paul et al passed to foot of calendar E E Ritchie vs Peter C Brixen demurrer de-murrer to complaint withdrawn and twenty days to answer Brighton and North Point Irrigation company vst Charley J Hubbard et al motion for a new trial passed to foot of calendar Ellen Everill vs John Weber motion for new trial argued and submitted Sullivan Machinery company vs the Diamond Mining company et al all demurrers to complaint withdrawn and twenty days allowed to answer German American Insurance company com-pany et al vs Louis Kalitz motion for a new trial passed to foot of calendar Utah National bank vs John A Groesbeck et al motion to strike out demurrer and motion for receiver passed pass-ed to foot of calendar American Commercial and Collecting Agency vs J W Farrell Co passed Marian Bradley vs Henry C James 6t al demurrer to complaint stricken from calendar I A J Pendleton et al vs E E Cas sady et al demurrer to amended complaint com-plaint overruled and ten days to answer an-swer leave to intervene granted New England Trust company vs W H Wilkinson et al sent to Judge Bartch M H Tobin vs Thomas liine et al demurrer to complaint withdrawn Studebaker Bros Manufacturing company vs S H Pinkerton demurrer demur-rer to complaint passed to foot of calendar Waldemar Van Colt vs O P Pratt judgment by consent for 39780 j I Thomas Cupit vs fthe Park City bank motion to strike out amended i answer to amended complaint arid judgment upon pleadings argued and submitted TC James Spencer Bat man Co vs John Beck execution heretofore inadvertently In-advertently issued to the sheriff of Cache county orderedrecalled and all proceedings thereunder set aside and I annulled Brigham Young Trust p0 vs Henry Wagner motion for new trial passed j to foot ot calendar James Johnston Vs Robert T Brown motion for anew trial overruled over-ruled and twentythree days stay of execution granted to perfect appeal Ramsey Skemler Co vs J H Griffin et al demurrer to complaint withdrawn and ten ds to answer Still They > Come Chief Justice Merritt yesterday after the usual examination j > assed the following fol-lowing for citizenship George B Edgar Robert McLaughlin Walter J Edgar Thomas C Edgar and John H Hamilton natives of Scotland George T Smith Thomas H Werry Alex Brown William Cocking Robert Alan GreenepJ William Camp bell Benjamin Booth Phillip Booth and William Scare natives of Eng land John P Hosh an Austrian Herman Gerwincr Hans Hoch Germans Ger-mans George W Thulin of Norway Carl P E Nelson Denmark and Carl F Anderson a native of Sweden On n Promissory Note The Taylor Romney Armstrong company has commenced suit in the Third district court to collect from John Beck the sum of 309871 on a promissory note secured by 500 shares of the capital stock of the Salt Lake Keeley institute f JmlgmciitH Entered Judgments were entered in the Third district court as follows G R Potter vs Josiah Nichols for the plaintiff for 457 and costs Clark Eldridge Co vs Thomas C i i Fatten jr et al for the plaintiff for 757 Guilty of Petit Larceny John Hickman who was arrested by the sheriff on Wednesday on the charge of burglary it being alleged that he broke into the barn of William Casper at Mill Creek and stole seyeral sets 6f harness came up for preliminary prelimin-ary hearing before United States Commissioner Com-missioner McNally yesterday The prosecution changed the charge from burglary to petit larceny to which Hickman pleaded guilty and sentence was deferred until today There are other parties mixed up in the deal whom the sheriff expects to have behind the bars in short oilier Dispute About liny The hearing of the suit of the American Ameri-can Fork Coop company vs the Peoples Peo-ples Forwarding company occupied a good deal of the time in United States Commissioner McNallys court yesterday yester-day The suit was brought to recover 9456 the purchase price of a quahtity of hay sold and delivered The defendant defend-ant company claimed the hay was rotten and consequently refused to pay for It A host of witnesses were examined ex-amined and his honor made a peisonal Inspection of the goods at the defendants defend-ants warehouse on Commercial street After hearing the testimony which was both voluminous and contradictory Judge McNally took the case under advisement until today Court Notes Attorney J A Williams returned yesterday yes-terday after a pleasant visit of a months duration at his old home at Catletteburg Ky Attorney E D R Thompson with Bennett Marshall Bradley has been confined to bed with typhoid fever for the past week Attorney R D Winters Is also very sick |