Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-03 | Page 32 | Fees of City Court Are Nearly Doubled

FEES OE CITY COURT ARE NEARLY DOUBLED Splendid Showing Is Made in Civil Division of the Tribunal. Fees of the civil division of tho city court havo almost; doubled in the last your, the annual report of this department, depart-ment, submitted lo tho city recorder Saturday shows, and tho business as to tho number of complaints filed and other pnpers handled has almost trebled. The tees for the year just ended amount to 4032.05. The fees for 1907 woro $2605.75 and for 1906 only frl770.l0. Tho compelling of two or thrco collection agencies to confine themselves them-selves to the cit3' and operations of the retail dealers' associations on a larger scale aro given as the roaspns for the boost in receipts and general business. There wero 1990 complaints filed in this division of the city court, 3979 on which fees wero paid and eleven accompanied ac-companied b3' affidavits of impecunios-ity7 impecunios-ity7 on which no fees woro received. Tins raises tho total number of complaints com-plaints to 1990. Tho total number of complaints in 1907 was 1099.