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Show SUPREME COURT DECISION. nllornejs Hast "T..e More Pains" in Preparing Abstracts. SO HUS JUIKir. IILKklllMlX. Some Inlcrntlaf I'olnli In in Apprtl Cit Today. JuJgo nUoVturD, In tlto Supreme Couit today, remleml the opinion In tliocaaaof Jonathan Ncrdliam it nl., arpollanla, Ta. Bait I,Vo City el at., re-epondenta. re-epondenta. TliU wa originally a lull brought to (ulel title, and waa tried In Judge Andemn'i court. Ilia honor, In tlio outael, aald llio nlctract In thla caae waa m lm-a-ifcct tbat llio work of Ilia court had been really Inciraaeil, la-cauw It waa comel!cd to nad the whola record In order to undontand th ci'e. Attorney ought to lko nuto patnaln irrrarlnit their abatracta. Tlio com-phlnt com-phlnt waa filed November (3tlt, )t, the amended complaint on January lClh, IRW, and tlio anawer of defend. anta In Decemlivr of tlio latter year. No aummoni wa lalucd inlhecwr, Iho defendauta aiiawellng Tolunlarlly, Thealatutoof th Territory rprely pruvldid that Iho flllnK of thoivm plaint waa tlio commencement of the actlen; that a uminona might Imuo within rt year, ami tlio drlendant might within that liioaar with, out auuimoue and dofcud 111 action. Tba defendant! tirro till an appiar, and defeudrd the action without mak Ingnny rilrt by their anawer, or In any other way; ao that a etiniinone waa not IvuieO xnlilu tlio year, and that ult waa continued on Iho docket aa rommenrol. Tho court thought, thrreforr, that th dalo of the commencement com-mencement of the, action waa March Mth, Ism. Another rtlltuliiary iUMtlon waa, could the apa Halo court review In Ibla caae, Tho contention Of the rraindenta waa that the qutwtlol! aa to whillier tho erldenco JuatHlnl llmjudguient could not In reviewed, bt-caueo tho ajal waa not taken wlthlu ality Uaya frjm tho rendition of th Judgment. Tho aptal waa taken loth from tho Judgment and from Ilia order overruling the motion for a new trial, and only a few daya from tho data of the order. The Huprcmo Court thought that the apallati court could rovlew anything the court blew might right fully paaa upon th hrarlnx of a motion mo-tion for, now trial In an apical from th order overruling tho motion. Therrforo tho whole caao waa aubject to review by thla com L Thla ault waa brought to quiet tltlo to a ijuarter recllon of land by Iho helraof Jonathan Necdhani, decraaod. Th dtfeudanta filed an anawer deny. Ing th allegation of Iho complaint, and a, croai-complalnt alleging that they weru the ownora of a ajrtlon of tho laud In qui-ellob, and derived their tltlo through a deed from llio admlnlilratnra of llio utttoof th decedent lo tho city of Halt I.ako. They alao eel up advera omcmIoii for inoro than aavrn yrare. The drceileut tellleil Ucu the laud, niadn final proof, audld for Ilia laud lu hit lifetime; after hit death a patent for th laud waa laaueil lo hliu. Thla gato tlnl heir a title In fee, unit Ihe tltlo liaaaed out of them by th aaleaud dotil mala by Iho admlnltlratora. Hut I lalntltla claimed that th proceeding In lb I'rolato court In lh application of on of tho admluletratora were al aolulely void. In thla caao application waa made to tha.l'robat court by only onet.fthe adtululalratoraftheio Uln two), on Augual Unl, 1SJ5, th order of aal being maJo ou Auguat 17lli; tho tale took lac AugualSMth, and con tlnuathti of th aame ou rWplemlr 3rd. Tim aututo did not provide that any liollrocf theeoprocraallngaahouM bo given. Th contention of the ap-iiellanU ap-iiellanU waa that threo pro-luta pro-luta iroceanllnga wrro roriini non Jiu, and vol I lor want of nolle. It waa not nrceaeary for tho court to jaua Un that iiiratlun; but 11 aeemed that when etclal pnxiiallng wajprovl lot for by thoatatute, and th manner of (rforni. lug ll waa not ipeclfled, It ought to ta, according to thevourao of th common law, th rule thereof llnn that oveiy rwn InlercatMl In any adjudication ahuuld hao an opportunity to bo heard. YI many autliorltlni held that In thla claaa of caaoe notlco to helra wat not nocva-ary. Another ctnlotrtlou of the apprllanta waa that tho polltloii lo Ihn l'roUto omrt to havo thla land aol I did not atatn facta tuniclent to give tho court JurUdlctlon of tba autleci ruitu-r; and thla court cotuldriiil th ronteutlon woll taken. The -tHloii In thla caao did not alleg that Ihrr ailalnl dtbta or chargraagalnat tho ,tateunld, nor that then, waa tupcraonal trujrtyto lay audi drbta, If any ellatcxl. Tho logical conclualou from whhh thero waa no caca-thrri forr, w at, that tho |