| Show TO SETTLE HILOW CASES council committee favors a compromise I 1 conference WITH LAWYERS cenal companies counsel advise the acceptance of 0 the offer mado by damaged lund land owners judge hoge opposes it but tho committee adopts the recommendation unanimously fr 4 the committee on oil municipal lau lans s of the city council doted last evening to recommend to the counell council n the acceptance of tile the comp compromise romi se offered by tho the ninety two owners of land on the east cast shore chore of utah I 1 lake ake who have for some time past been prosecuting bulls bull against tile the city and four canal companies for damages aggregating gre gating by reason of the overflow of 0 their lands franklin S richards and judge sutherland representing tile the four canal companies and E D hoge representing tile the city met with the committee and thoroughly explained the status of 0 the cases mr richards especially went into the matter in detail pointing out that the referees had so far ruled against the defendants on every material point and that judgment would no doubt be rendered against the city and canal com companies tor for a very large sum mr richards also called attention to the fact that important legal questions were in other cases now pending before the ilia first district court all of which would be adjudicated in time in mr richards insisted that the th compromise was waa the cheapest way out ot of a tedious liti litigation gallon and that his clients favored its acceptance judge sutherland concurred in ili aai all that mr richards said and also favored the compromise 1 I would like ilka to know mr richards councilman Bleb lillan interposed P seu it at this point ant liow how tor far this compromise aou would KO toward settling the matter for it ill settle everything to date mr richards richardq answered and then we can go back to court and nettle the matter of maintaining boards in the upper dam and the construct construction lon of ill the a contract both of 0 which questions are in the case judge hoge vigorously opposed the C compromise om promise although admitting that so BO far as dollars and cents were concerned it was the cheapest cheape bt way ou out t at this time lie he did not believe that the compromise would settle the litigation but did belleve believe that thal the city would id be the winner vinner of the suits 1 in the end lie he also agreed with mr alc richards and judge sutherland that the referees would find tor for the plaintiffs in a very large sum after some further discussion it was moved ly lr and seconded dd by mason that the committee recommend to the council tile the acceptance of the compromise com promise and upon being put t to 0 a vote the motion unanimously prevailed this of 0 course in the event that the council adopts the committees report e port disposes of 0 the matter tor for the pr present r besent the posy case which was reversed rever by the supreme court after the lower court had rendered ren dfred a judgment in favor of 0 the plaintiff for Is pending on a retrial and upon its final ad judica lion rests the important leg legac a I 1 questions ln ini alved in the litigation that has been going on for so many ye years a rs between the land owners on tb the e east shore of the take lake and the various canal companies |
