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Show JUDGE HOWELL ISSUES IMPORTANT ORDERS Does Not, Want the County Put to Unnecessary Expense; Distribution of Estates, Special to The Tribune. OGDKN, May 11. In the District court today Judge Howell issued two important; orders, one of which refers to the practice of nHking for a jury when tho question at issuo is purely one hi equity, and is aa follows:, "Hereafter if a jury is domnnded in compliance with tho rules of tho court in any cnuRe ponding, nnd in tho opinion opin-ion of connsol on tho other sido it is not a propor onso for a trial by jury, and the issues therein are purely equitable, equita-ble, I desiro tho matter called to tho attention of the court a sufficient length of time prior to tho trial of tho cause to enable the court to determino whether wheth-er or not tho case is a proper ono for a jury, so that tho necessity of summoning sum-moning tho jury for that dny and putting put-ting the county to unnecessary expense, if it is not a proper case for a jury, may be avoided. 1 desire to say further fur-ther to gentlemen of the bar that I am not disposed to grant requests for jurios in equity cases." Tho other is with rcforenco tot the froquent petitions for summary distribution distri-bution of estates and tho court has issued is-sued tho following order: "So much difficulty hns arisen heretofore here-tofore as a result of "petitions for summary sum-mary distribution that I dosiro it to bo understood that if a petition for summary sum-mary distribution is to bo presented to the court in any estate, the estate should bo appraised by tho regular inheritance in-heritance appraisers, and thus the possibility pos-sibility ot! an estate being appraisod too low bv appruisors friendly to a summary sum-mary distribution may be avoided." |