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Show CASE IS REOPENED BY SUPREME COURT i ! Millard County Judge Ordered to See j Tliat Proper Accounting Is Made j in Mortgage Case, i The supreme court yesterday handed flown an opinion granting an alterna- ! tive writ of mandate in behalf of Albert Al-bert Watts and others against Joshua Greenwood, judge of the district court of Millard county. The writ directs the judge to reopen the case in which Watts and his associates sought to have the court hen r cause whv a mortgage held by tho Delta Land & Water company com-pany iipon cattle belonging to Watts aud his associates should not be foreclosed. fore-closed. ! The mortgage was made iu the spring of 19 10. In the fall of Ihe same year tho mortgage was foreclosed and sale of the cattle advertised by the com- j pan v. Watts and the others applied to the ! district court for an order enjoining the sale and directing that all further j proceedings to enforce the mortgage be i held under the direction of the court. I The. company, however, alleging that j the livestock was a perishable security, 1 asked that the debtors be required to ! give bond of $300 that the stock should bo properly cared for. This bond was given. The company then asked that an additional ad-ditional bond of $750 be furnished, and : the court issued au order to this effect. ; When the debtors refused to give the . additional bond the udge vacated his 1 original order assuming charge of the . proceedings. The company seized and I sold the stock. ' j The supreme court held that the judge had the right, if necessary, to or-I or-I iler the stock sold, but that he should have retained charge of the foreclosure i proceedings and seen that the proceeds of the sale were equitably distributed. The writ, therefore, orders that the judge reinstate his original order and sec that accounting between the mortgage mort-gage holders and the debtors is properly transacted. |