Show A Scoring < The attorneys for the plaintiff In the cose of 1 JCarrlgan vs It G MeXico and others gave the defendants de-fendants a terrible scoring Tlc defendants are trustees of Mount Olivet Cemetery and most of them are minister of Christian denomination denomi-nation In the r on trial Mr Carrigan sues for damages for the removal of the body of his wife from the lot where she was buried On a former occasion he sued for anJ obtained damages for the removal moval of his tw children under similar circumstances The facts of this case ar In brief that Mr CardIgan owned a lit In time cemetery where his wife was burled Tho beard adopted n rule providing thai when the owner if a let failed to my the water tax I 1 thirty days he ore the lot and bodies interred there were to b removed A water tax of It was due on Mr Carrlgandlot and a It was not paid within tile time all6tvd the grave was opened and the body of his wife removed The Christian gentlemen claimed Uiat they sent a notice in regard to the tax 10 Mr Carrigan through the postofflcc but that gentleman gn tleman said he never received It andho first became aware of the action ac-tion taken by visiting the cemetery and of the coltinin audfinding pieces In which his wife was c on the ground near the lot lie then brought suit for0 and the jury gave him a verdict for I600 At tho bearing yesterday the defendants were represented by I I Williams who based his motion for 1 new trial on the ground that the verdict was not warranted by the evidence and that l was rendered through passion and rnder plon prejudice pre-judice and that the damages were excessive The moon w opposed byCB Yenta and J dg Powers Mr arian after discussing the legal I questions Involved concluded by raking tho parsons over the coals in vigorous style for their conduct In ruthlessly tearing open a grave and removing n body bcosutc a paltry water tax 1 which the phtlnUiTdid not know was duehad cot been raid He said the conduct of these ChrMHn gentlemen was 6 brut shocking and rcpuklru that ha bad n patience to discuss it Thecaso was an Important one becauu the rights of the people whose dead were buried in that cemetery > r In volvcd As for the defendants he had nothing but t deepest contempt for them and fieOfily temptforthem only regretted that they were not pint to hear him uy s Judge Towers discussed the law of damages and applied it to the c In referring t the defendants defend-ants held that men who would commlt < uchan n of saciile eta they had been guilty of were not St bi walk the streets wth decent menThe men-The case was taken under advisement |