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Show TESTIMONY ON FUMES IS GIVEN IN COURT William Wannacott, one of the principal princi-pal witnesses on the stand Wednesday In Judge Armstrong's court in the case of i Lucy E. Gurley et nl. against thu Utah ; Gas and Coke, company to restrain the a company from operating its plant, on the ground that thh fumes and smoke from the works are a menace lo public health and a general nuisance and detriment to tho community, testified that lie owns property in the vicinity of the plant. Before Be-fore tho plant was put Into operation, he ssild. his property was runted all of C the time, but since It has been operating It has been difficult for him to find tenants, ten-ants, owing to the poisonous fumes emanating ema-nating from the gas plant. Pictures were introduced by the plaintiffs plain-tiffs Wednesday showing how egctalIon had become blighted. However. In con- E travention of the claim It was shown by c thft defense that the vines and vegeta- P tlon might have died from other causes p and that the proof that they had with- cred and died was not proof that It was .from the fumes of the gas company's K plant. |