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Show THE CAIK-JES RINGS gUIT. It ia fondly heped the time will come when Utah will have a supreme' court whoee judges know some law and have the fairness to declare it, no matter who are the litigants, and whose opinions may be sustained by the highest tribunal of Ihe nation. Suit after suit is appoaled from the local court to (he United States Supreme Su-preme court, and with rarely an exception, ex-ception, the decisions of the territorial terri-torial tribunal ore reversed and declared de-clared !o be had law. These reversal:) re-versal:) come with such cntraorJinary ' regularity that it is something of a wonder that some of our local justices do not tire of the monotony ui ueiuy uverruieu, oecuaie uis -guatcd with themselves, and re' tire from places which they are claarly unfitted to fill. The latent set back that the territorial court has suflijred ia in the Cain-Jennings case, involving the title and light of possession pos-session of the Emporium corner. The ground for the action may be briefly stated: The lato JoBeph Cain, with his family, occupied, previous to his death, a portion of the lot on East Temple street known a3 the Emporium Em-porium corner; and when the town-Bite town-Bite vai entered, the Cain beira laid claim, by r'ght of inheritance atul contiauoua occupancy, to the entire corcr (ten rods iquare) a property valiv d at some hundreds of thousands ofdilars. Mr. Jennings and others - ol ihe defendants in the action just decided, had been in undisputed undis-puted possession of the property prop-erty for many years, and spent vast eli ins of money improviog it. Their title was presumed by themselves and the public to be un-quetit:onab:o, un-quetit:onab:o, and no shadow had ap-peaitd ap-peaitd until the application by the Cains for tho government deeds under the tuwusito act. The history of the Bucc."f?sive trials in the probate, district dis-trict and supreme couita, is so well known that it is not necessary to repeat re-peat it here. We will merely eay the probata court decided in favor of Mr. Jenuings and the co-defendants, tho Fame as te United States Supreme Su-preme court hm now decided; Justice E-ucraon, sitting as judgo of this district, dis-trict, affirmed that decision; but on appfil, his associates oo the supreme bencli (rscbacfler and Boreman) revered re-vered him. Now the United States Pup re me court haj tet aside the finding of our highest territorial tri biinM, and ordered a division of the property aa origiually decreed by the prob.tle court, leavmg the Cain heirs with tLe title to just what they possessed, (tho Auerbach and Callahan Calla-han t-iore) which they are legally and equitably entitled to, and to which they aloup were the claimants. The decree is eminently right and proper, as that in the local eupreme court was unjust, if not infamous. We question if there is another tribunal in the land of equil prominence and authority that would have made such o dec'sico as that framed by Bore-man Bore-man and endorsed by Scbaefler; and it may bo doubted if these justices would havo been gu;Uy of the opinion had not the injured partiej been prominent members of the church that is so oflensive to the judges. |