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Show WOMAN ON JURY LIST, While Eligible to Serve, She Is Excused by the Court. Social to The Tribune. OGDEX, Feb. 2. Through an error on the part of the jury cominissiotners, the name of a woman. Mrs. Ullo Thomas, saB Included in a list of talesmen summoned sum-moned for service in Judge J. A. How-til's How-til's court this morning. Although she aas eligible to serve, exemption was panted by Judge Howell, as she did not seem inclined to claim her right by appearing in answer to the summons. Mrs. Thomas had previously expressed to the court her desire to be excused from j:irv service. ' The jmv commissioners comtend that her name" appeared on the registration Hits as well as the tax lists, qualifying her for jury service, and that the name appeared in such form as to give no indication that it belonged to a woman. Women have been eligible for jury service serv-ice since Utah gainer! statehood, but they have never been called upon tu serve in that caijacity. |