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Show Clear aa Mud. A very important and somewhat, new interpretation of one of the U tab ! statutes occurred in Tooele precinct justice's court. We transcribe it for I the benefit of other justices in the territory. ter-ritory. It was on the 20th iust. Par ties residing in l ine canon precinct were summoned to answer a charge of damages and trespass, the trespass having been committed in Pine canon precinct. The defendants moved that the action be dismissed without cost, as per section 509 of the act to regulate regu-late proceeding in civil cases. The justice after informing counsel that it was no use for them to "blow" so much over so small a queation, and that the law was very clear to his intellect, in-tellect, delivered the following: Sec. 509. Xo person shall be held to answer any summons issued against him from a justice's court, in a civil action in any precinct other than the one in which he shall reside, except in the cases following. Third, In cases of injury to person or to real or persoual property, the plaintiff plain-tiff may prosecute his action in the precinct where the injury was committed. com-mitted. "The law does not say he shall, but he may. I overrule the motion." This luminous decision may bo very useful to justices and show them how to twist the law to decide against law and common sense. |