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Show SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DECISIONS The Ftah supreme court yesterday sustained sus-tained the decision of the Fourth district court in the case of the J. L. price Brokerage company of St. Joseph. Mo., against J. D. Dixon. In the original suit, which the plaintiff lost, action was brought against Mr. Dixon of J. D. Dixon Dix-on & Sons, Provo, for the collection of $473 brokerage fees. The plaintiff alleged tha t the money was due for services in the sale of $500 bushels of peaches to the E. D. Smith Mercantile company of the Missouri city. In one of the shortest supreme court decisions ever written in Utah the entire decision is only sixty-five words Justice Thurman upholds the decision of the lower low-er court in the divorce case of G. W. Penwarden against Anna Penwarden, In which Mra. Penwarden appealed from the decision of the lower court. In granting the divorce, the lower court gave the custody cus-tody of the children to the mother, with alimony. In a counter-claim, Mrs. Pen-wa.rden Pen-wa.rden asked for se;a rate maintenance. This was denied by the lower court. In her appeal the plaintiff said that insufficient insuffi-cient evidence 'had been presented. The ca3e was dismissed as presenting a point which is not for the determination of the highest tribunal. |