Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-03 | Page 16 | Stringent Order as to Files and Papers

STRINGENT ORDER AS TO FILES AND PAPERS In the order of the courts dlrectlnghat nono of tho flics or papers In any caeo shall bo taken from tho County Clerk's offlco except upon an order of ono of tho Judges, an Innovation has been made which will bo welcome to many persons. Hitherto It has been tho practice of nearly ovory lawyer to take any flies or papors wanted and keep them for an ln-dcilnte ln-dcilnte time. Slnco Statehood, out of about 250Q cases, 00 files havo altogether dlsappearcd. Luttera were w.rltten to the various lawyers who nart taken nnd ncvor returned them. Many of these gentlemen never even troubled to reply to the letters. let-ters. Ono of tho best -known law flrrr.s In tho city replied; "We know nothing of the files in tho cases mentioned In your letter. Your list Is erroneous;" This, according to Deputy Clerk Armstrong, Arm-strong, Is a type of tho reply iccelved In answer to the requests for the return of tho flics. Ono gentleman yesterday asked for tho files of 'three enses. In two of these the files had 3eon taken by some lawyers and not returned; Many protests havo been mnde by the County Clerk and his deputies from thno to tlmo against this practice of not returning re-turning theso files, but no heed was paid. The order Issued yesterday la the only means by which It can bo stopped. Under the now regulations, when any of tho files are taken under a special order of the court, they mny not be kept beyond be-yond the tlmo specified In such order,