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Show a solitaryjjecision! The Supreme Court Has a Heap of Trouble Over a Case Involving live Dollars . THE MATTER OF DISBAEMENT. Nicholas Groesbeck is Released on a Telegram Tel-egram From the U nited States Attorney Genera!, The supreme court convened at 10 o'clock this morning, with Chief Justice Zane and Associate Anderson on the bench. A motion to vacate the order and enter en-ter a stay of proceedings in the case of Lewis vs. Kinney was made, whereupon Justice Anderson handed down a decision de-cision in the case of Willard City vs. I nomas Woodland, an appeal from the Second district. The case is one in which a heap of trouble was iriado over a very small matter, the amount involved in-volved being no more than $."1.10, which was levied t against the appellant-defendant as a tax up.'-n real aud personal property. The issue began liefore a justice of the peace, whero the city was awarded judgment. An appeal was taken to the district court aud appellant failing to appear, the jury brought in a verdict in favor of respondent plaintiff in the sum of f .".4.r). The issue was then carried to the supreme court where the judgment of the lower court was affirmed, af-firmed, Zane and Blackburn concurring. concur-ring. The court then ad journed until April 18 Bt 11 o'clock. The record in Clerk Bates' ollice discloses dis-closes the fact that the proceedings for disbarment that were instituted yesterday yester-day by United States Attorney Varian were launched at J. D. Lomax, one of the distinguished luminaries of Logan, who is charged with a number of unprofessional un-professional acts and iiliosyncracies. When a request was made to Chief Justice Jus-tice Zane for access to the rather formidable form-idable document it was denied on the ground that it contained serious charges charges that might ruin the respondent respond-ent anil until such time ns an answer was tiled it would not be made public. It is understood that the complaint embraces a chapter of very sensational charges and that the affair will be a racy one throughout. Conrt Noma. No tidings vet from the decision on the Old Fort block. United States Marshal Parsons is expected ex-pected to arrive from California on any train. ) The W. J. Alleni election case will come up in the disiict court on Monday Mon-day morning. Commissioner Morrell was occupied in the hearing of an issue on a contract this morning. C. H. Martin of Nebraska was admitted admit-ted to practice before the supreme court this morning. Pending the application for new trial William Diamond is sharing the hospitalities hospi-talities of the warden. Judges Miner and Blackburn have returned to their respective districts and w ill grind out decisions for the litigants liti-gants at home until the lHth. Judges Zane and Anderson will hear matters in chambers tomorrow. Upon a telegram received at the United States marshal's office from the United States attorney general at Washington. Nicholas Groesbeck was yesterday discharged from the penitentiary peniten-tiary in which ho has boen languishing since December 1st last and whether he was sent for a teim of 18 months. Mr. (iroesbeck was received by a host of friends who rejoiced with hira over his release and he is again giving his attention atten-tion to personal affairs. |