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Show COMPROMISE IN SUIT IN COURT 135 YEARS Special Cable to The Tribune. ROME, May 9. In 1TS1 the Count Salo-mone Salo-mone of Serravalle brought an action against the commune of Sttlusola Blellese for the violation of water rights. The case has continued for 133 years, and wi only settled this week by com promise. "Meanwhile the Salomon e estates had "been sold several times, but ea':h new proprietor kept the net ion jjoinp. while every successive mayor of the commune handed the defense of . the town as a heritage to his successor. Each party had spent a small fortune in sustaining throughout the years their respective rights, but meanwhile tno peasants of the district were deprived of their drinking drink-ing water. |