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Show LAWYERS IN SHARP TILT. Counsel for Opposing t Sides Exchange Compliments at Trial. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. March 31. A sharp passage occurred today in the trial of tho damage dam-age suit of James F. Murray against the Utah Canning company this afternoon, after-noon, when James B. McCrackon. one of tho attorneys for tho plaintiff, took the witness stand to verify a deposition of one of the witnesses for the plalntifT. The nppearance of the attorney on the witness stand wa9 tho occasion for a severe se-vere grilling by W. IT. King of Salt Lake, one of the attorneys for the canning company. com-pany. Judge King demanded to know If Mr. McCracken and his law partner. A. WL. Agee. had not been furnishing I i money to tho plaintiff in order to keep the Btiit going, and if tho attorneys were not wholly depending upon a verdict in favor of the plnlntlft to reimburse them for money advanced in preparing the ease for trial. Attorney McCracken denied that any person other than tho plaintiff's father had provided the money for the payment of the fees and costs of the case, but admitted that the payment of his and his partner's services would probably depend upon a verdict In favor of the plaintiff. Tho caso was not concluded at the hour of adjournment. Tho plaintiff is asking for $25,000 damages for Injuries received at tho company's factory In Osden. |