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Show DOCKETS FOR A DAY. A Frenchman Cleverly DupedThe Wyn-coop Wyn-coop Will Case Preparations for the Cuss lEite Trial. The examination of M. D. O'Brien, on a charge of having robbed Phillip Buyer a passenger of $130 in a game of monte, was set for 3 o'clock this afternoon before Commissioner Com-missioner (ireenman. It is the same old story of Hie knave and the dupe. The defendants In the ease of Charles Hunt against N. II. Groesbeek, et al., have Bled their answer denying that they are indebted in-debted to plaintiff in the sum claimed. The action involves a transaction in which somo city property changed hands, and in which Groesbeek gave bis note secured se-cured by a mortgage on the ground. The defendant Groesbeek sets up that he gave Hunt $500 to release the mortgage and release re-lease the property, but that tho latter had failed to do so. Amos II. Fielding has brought suit against Thomas E. McEvoy et al to recover posses, sion of certain real estate. The same plain-tiif plain-tiif has commenced an action against John W. Young et al, who are also claimants in the property. The following venire was made returnable in the district court at 10 o'clock this morning: morn-ing: C. W. Watson, J. J. O'Reilly, Charles Eltiorn, W. W. Chisholm, Samuel Davis, James 1). Criss, Henry Dougherty, Thomas Pells, W. B. Andrew, M. W. Davis, Sol Crown, James Deacon, Alex Rogers, C. 8. Hardy, James A. Chute, A. W. Carlson, T. V. Hooper, W. F. Raybould. Master in Chancery Loofbourow is in Idaho on a professional errand. .Luke Hito, esq., a prominent attorney of St. Louis, is in the city and will appear in the trial of his brother Cass at Provo, which opens on Tuesday morning next. The Wyncoop will caBe is in progress pro-gress today before Judge Bartcb of the probate court. Mr. Brown, it appears ap-pears from the evidence, had been decedent's benefactor for several years before her death and in her struggle with the fatal malady mal-ady had been her best friend. The behest in his favor seems to have been an act of gratitude, grati-tude, and in support of his standing' as a man he refers to tho best people in Utah There was nothing to justify contestors in making him party to any scandal. in the ease of L. M. Olsen vs. the Rio Grande Western railway, leave to tile amended complaint was allowed, and defendant de-fendant given until March 10 to answer. In the case of the Lexington Mining company com-pany vs. the Gld Jordan Mining company, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff plain-tiff for 6088.76, loss $13.3."). Thirty days allowed al-lowed in which to Hie motion for a new trial. |