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Show TRUST COMPANY MAY YET BE HELD LIABLE Reversal of ono portion of tho Judgment Judg-ment and affirmation of the olhr is made by tho supremo court in an opinion opin-ion rendered yesterday In tho case of the Gottsegan Cigar company of Now ork against. J. R, Lev.V and If. S. Lovy and tho Utah Savings & Trust company. Tho suit was brought to collect $2500 on a bill of goodn sold and delivered. Judgment Judg-ment was. entered against the Levys, but wan denied as against the truat company, com-pany, which was rnado a defendant as surety for the Levys. The plaintiff -appealed. A new trial Is ordered, so far as concerns the trust company, but tho Judgment againat the Lews for $1381 is ufflnncd. In anothor opinion given yesterday tho high court reversed the district court In the cose of Martha J Watson and George ID, Chnndlor against tho Utah Copper company and the West Mountain Placer Mining company of Bingham. The suit was brought to restrain the mining companies from removing water from a subterranean tunnel which tapped the Dotirce of Irrigation for the plaintiffs' farms' near tho mouth of Bingham canyon. can-yon. The lower court dismissed tho suit. In ordering n new trial the supremo court holds that the companies have no right to pump the water from tho tunnel unless they recompense the plaintiffs by returning Into tho Bingham canyon crek an equal amount. |