Show I THE POLICEMENS SUITS I I Against the City on Trial Before t Judge Cherry A BURGLAR SENTENCED GEORGE SEYMOUR SENT TO TE PEN FOR TWO YEARS M 1 Beardsley Gets a Verdict For 472 Against S W Morrison Supreme Court Reverses the Lower Court in the Case of Slay Eastman vs A E Currey Miscellaneous Mis-cellaneous Court Callings I The suit in which Horace A Heath I Is plaintiff and Salt Lake City defendant de-fendant was on trial yesterday afternoon after-noon before Judge Cherry without a jury Messrs John r Zane and J H Hurd represented the plaintiff and City Attorneys McKay and Hempstcad appeared ap-peared for the city The plaintiff who was a police officer of Stt Lake City sued to recoVer 5720 alleged to be due for salary for himself and other officers viz W H Hurd A L Estes J A Hcnsen O W Shafer J 11 Danner J C Davis and G F Davenport who assigned their I claims to this plaintiff I is alleged I in the complaint that in 1894 the of j deem named were by the chief of police acting under a pretended susenslon made without cause illegally and wrongfully dismissed from the force I and were kent 1 from performing the duties of police officers for eight I months for which they received no remuneration and to recover which the suit was brought For defense the city set up that on August 14 1S94 the city council resolved re-solved to reduce the number of men on the police force from 49 to 4 and passed an ordinance to that effect and in accordance therewith Chief of Police Pratt suspended these plaintiffs from the force which action was approved II ap-proved by the board of police and fire commissioners and that such action was legal and proper I I It After under hearing advisement the case his honor took |