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Show A HAL'S LAKE CASE. The Letter Currier of ion Win Their Suit ltelore tiie Court ot Claims -Eight MOWS Maku :t Day. a W sn i.Nunts, March 8. The court ot claims today rendered a tlcrisiou in what is know n as the lettcr-curricr cases. In the Sail Lake City cartes tin; curriers were em ployed six luiurs a day (totting letters ready for delivery and delivering; the in four hours a day, during the Intervals of distributing the letters in the postuiflce, and one hour a day or to ore in puutofflco work after their last currier service was performed. They sued under the cight-liour law fur the additional addi-tional time. The cottrt decided that tiie postmuster at (Sail hake has the tight to employ em-ploy them iu distributing them between trips, Ah to the employment after their days' work, the couri expressed grave doubt, but resolved In favor of the carriers, leaving it to the supreme court to correct the error, li tiierc was one. i i . |