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Show lochrie" nowhere. His Decision la the Tnscarora Book Case Reversed. JI'lllii: ZM-l I1LII.XI TOIIIT. Allorney lUn llnga Molea onia Slinging kTMtloi:e on Hie OI.Jccl .Songlil. When tho Tuicarora"hravti" lgan their tattle In C'hlif Juatlio Ztne'a rourl at 10.30 thla morning, the Urand Bacliom waa iiowliere lo bo reinj but lila merry men wcro thero lo the uum berof a. couple of doien or more, and tbo "Ilou'a" law .artner,()Kden llllia, waa on hand to pour aliul and ahell Into tbo ranki of lliecuim). Attorney Newton aat on lilt I'll, aa a aott of aeconJ lieutenant, though taking no active part lu Iho arguntenta. Attorney J Ij. Hawllne rtpreaentcil IMieari. Nor rellanJcimllh, tha defendant. The hearing took place In thu new coutt room. Whon the mlnuti-e of HtturJaj'a I rocei Jlnca In tlio Territorial Hupremo court had been riaJ and cotiflrucJ, Chief Juitiro Zauo retired ami took hla acat In the other court. Addreaalng lila Honor, Mr. Hawllne aald The demurrer In Ilia teas of DukoagalnatNorrell aaJ Hnillh ni fixed, I believe, for luarlng tills mom lug. filiatl woprocicdJ Judge Zane aaked Attorney Ogdeu Illlea If lio waa ready to go on, and re celveda reply luthv afllrmatlvt. Mr. Itawllna then alarled by ex plaining, for tlis Judge'i Information, that thu original action out of which thceo proceedings arore wax brought in Juatlco Ichrle'a touit. A demurrer waa filial to tlio complaint lu Ilia aaiuu court. Thla waa overrulej by tho juatlco and ludgmeut entered In favor of the jlalntlir, aud an apjieal from that Judgment vim now taken to thlaccurt. rhequeatlon aroaoupou Ilia dtmurier to thut complaint. Counael quoted from the aveund Toluuio Com lied Lawa. utge 3711, aectlon nooU, aud aald that by thla, aa lie undtratood It, all ILti legal oljectlona tothotomt lalnt taken In tha Juellcc' court wero avallablu here, ilo read tha com. plaint of Duke, Lritlly commented iitHin It aa hu went along, aud then recited tha demurrer thereto. Thu purpote and otject of thla Inquiry, tie aald, waa not to recover thu 13 damager, but to have the court K ternilnuthat Huko wai tho eecrotary or a member of Iho icntral cuinmltteu of tho only true and genuine Demo crallaiuriyof Iho Territory if llt.iU, (Laughter). Tho coinlaint alleged, llrat, tbat the plalutlir waa In 1SS1 ar-polnted ar-polnted a member of that Democratlo central committee, but it waa not alligeJ anywlieiu wbo the other tnemberi of that committer were whether thu elcfendanU might not havu been of tho uumlir. Ilia Honor would undoultedly take Judicial notlcoof tbn illllcal artlca rxlatlng In thu rarrltory, uf all mattera which wern ol common know ledge: that,for lnatancefll"re waa a Liberal" party In the city, n Democratic! Demo-cratic! parly anil a Itetubllcau jauly. Thocuuit might alao well taVo notice of Iho fact of any averment; bwaueu It waa common aud notcrloua that the party knuwn aa the "Literal" Hirty, for i?rtaln temporary purpceea, fur u lltne, at tight recognition In tho eem.e of Ucnu crate and Itej ul llcaite, though orelliiarlly known aa thu "Liberal" psr'y. In view ot Iheae thlngr, m an action of thla klud wherein It waa allrgul that a certain perauu lalmed tu lid a tnt lubcr of the. Ueiuouratlo cuntial oommlltce uiidcrcoudltlona It would iKitaaotiilal, In order to baae any right lo iroicrty In a given l ctumlttee, that thu oilu I lalnt ahould autu who cunetlluled lhalcomtitlttee. Tho avermenla were lakeu nioetatroiigly agalnilthci pleader, aud If lila eoniilaliit waa eiuljlguoua, ao that the court, from reading It, could not aay what the laaiiea might or might not Lo, or upon what right tha action waa eought tu la main talnel, thet demurrer, cm tha ground of ambiguity, would bo roje-rly euataliied. li,uflratiMarapli lu thu complaint, ho llialatad, waa defective aaltUld not nunte the pcreona who, together with thu loinplaliuuit, con. alltuted What they hurt, designate aa tho Tcrnlotlal Demccratlo Central committee. It eliould be elated who lh meiubera of Ihaliommlttiu were; then, If that weru a niatirlal faet, luue could tai tahen'un lliuitueetlon. Thu Territorial llemocrallo Central committee, liuurguvd, wite mt a legal c utlty it waa not eonielhlug ef u hlch thu coutta and the law could luaLe any recosnlllon, aa an entity, by virtue vir-tue of in name. It Imported iiuihlug, heiauialt wnt not alleged that It Waa a corporation; It had no legal le-gal algnlllcauce; It ' waa not alleged to bo even a tterlucrahlp. lu abort, It won a nonentity ao far aa tho law cxuld c ontemplalu. Thu ice ru awrmeut amounted to nothing, became be-came un nitjclaiiun, utili an a uorjiora Hon, could not u point au nge nt, mnku acontrart, nor acquire or hold tiroper ty. All or 0 doing buelueaa under a certain name, might apiwlnt an agent or culer Into a contrail; but lu com mon Jaw It wua iitcca-ary to iiamo thu pulleM. IS'o eort of a voluntary aaao elation hearlngan InJellnlte and uncertain uncer-tain uuuiber uf ureuiie could nciutru or hold irupurl) lu any manner or apiolnt ageuti which the law would recoguUc, iiuIcm It vmiuihi. aoilallan cruatcl uuj mulntalnod fur iharllablu jtirpotet, lu which cneu a court of e.ulty might recognise the, oljectulonuof thoau who coualltlltu It. It waa clear that If cuuuael lor thu lilalnlllt had alleged heru that Dule waa appointed by tho Halt Lake Aaao elation, not avrrlug that It waa a corporation cor-poration or n partoerahlp, nor giving the nnniti uf the I lattlet that that ua aoclatlou had a ncord and lu I up. Iwlntcd a ceitatu peraon aa an agent, to hold that record, and thatliy vlrtuo af that appointment he nought to recover It from tome other trreou who he Id naealuu, he would flat no caae oouifng within the Jurla. cllctlou of thu court, Ihetomplnliit act forth that Dukuweo a niaim erot the committee 1 1 fore mentioned, hut it waa not nlalmeil that thu lummlttcu uw lied theae two bonke, or that th,iy ever had imaieaalon of them. Hut It evaa alleged that Dule, III thu ycirlSHS, waa aiulnted agent, or aciretary, of thla uoneutlty, and that, aa luch, he waa entitled to all buoka ami rccordi pertaining to tha recurda of that committee, exiept Ihe two hooka wlili h the conimlltee It-clf aouglit lo recover That waa a clear md ex pllclt atatement, ahowlnif that Ihikn liltufelf waa not entllted to thcaarooka If II meant anything, Duke, to rar na ihe nta)lutment went waa nothing. It aeemd to colmael limply letlo to wrate time now In conal lerlng whether Duke ha fa right of action to reenter !hae I luuka. Mr. Itawllna quoted from tilth American declalotia, tgn711, pnintl ig nut that In equity, lu view of thu em larraeamenta which grew niltofthe dlllirulty uf bringing In many t artlra, when iiumeroua, to an nilloti, and by vlitue of Iho cqultal let prlnclplu where f rojicrty rlghta were luvolvcdna In tha cara uf charl'at la ateoclntlomi i court of eijulty woull penult ono or more terfona u cunta lu and euo on behalf or all other. Hut that could uolLcdoneln a v limitary aaanilatlon, aa lie Ihla Imlanie. ThclUn I an.l3.tli, pageiHInnd .u rceo lively, Amcrl can declalona, were next I lied, and ccunael aald that our elatnten In no way modified thoae rulca. If there waa any right In thla oca aa to thu Territorial fentrnl Democratlcrommll-leu Democratlcrommll-leu or thu Territorial llemocrallo arty, then thla action rould not to brought by one peraou. It waa In eubalatiie, an action of dellntio of thuao boobe, htcauie It waa not alleged lhat Duku aver had poateralon of thorn; "hut that they wern wrongfully ili-talned." ili-talned." II waa a well MHod principle of cletlhuo that one tuuant lu common could not malulalujudgmeui; hu muat LotnlllloJ lo Ihe entire Interrat. Una member of a party could not recover (roperty malnlalued by another member who had an Intereat In II; nor could ono member ol n committee recover properly from auther which waa almply detained by thalcomniltli-o unlertheirule. Ho muat ahow that he waa entitled to e xclualvu K,-c-aa!oli, For theve rca-ona couneel atked that the demurrer bu eualalned. Attorney Ogdeu 11 lie. for the plaintiff, aal I thla waa tho flrit time that tha defendant! had act up the ground upon which thoy claimed that tha complaint did not atato facta luftl. clenttoconatltuta u cauio of action. He auppoti-l It mails no dlllcronca what tho obltct of thla lull wntj whether It wai In all of onu political I arty aa agalmt another. It wn ll.l not weigh here. If thore weru an) thing In thla matter which vn fit to be conaldcred and illacuaatHl ly Jaweera, tho feeling of atliiaDihlp and conlixt would not and ought uot to have any cmct lutl.at court. Iho authorlllea which Mr, Itawllna had cited weru In caaca wheru a.acelallona of poreona which weru not corpora-tlona, corpora-tlona, who weru not legal cntltlr had atied. Thla wai, howuvcr, an action of claim and delivery of pcraoiinl proper.); and It waa a propoattion about which there could butio cllajulu that theae reform tudra ot iroccdure WrreexclualVtt of nil Ihe equity and common law method! of rccudure. Thla action or claim and deliverance waa a aubetltutlon for bolhcomrain law ncllone of replevin and diilnue. Tha queatlon heru wnawho la thu real aity In Inteictt? In order to determine thla ut common law In re ault cf ditlnuo tley would nak, "la tlili flalntltr tbo own-r or la h the balloeT" In either caac, If li an owner ho waa a real puny In lntertal,lf ha bu the balleo of another he wane real (arly In lu. Icriat, irovlJeil always the bnlleocf goodaciUld claim rcluvlti ordutlnua at common law, Thu atlcgaMona made that the comuiltteu waathu nwnvr, or wai In poaicaelon of the looka waa a mere matter ol"lndiiceinent"thatcoul I liavoleeu lift out of the complaint entirely, en-tirely, and Mr. Drako lould merely have aald lhat hu w aa entitled to then), they being "wrongfully detained." All theeeiuatlera Introduced about who weru the Democratic committee waa ainipiy "uvmouciary," Mr. Itawllna Ifjou rcgardel them aa merely "uvlJontlary," why wcro they liiaerted In thu complaint? Mr. Ililra (with a thoughtful ex-pio ex-pio ah n)-ITiey wero liiaerted Ikojuiu ttiu pleader did not know how toplial. (U.uj laughter In which the court eould not refrain from loluliig). Hut, auyway, tlioaearo mattera of Inducv inent which thla court cannot 3on-alderuiain 3on-alderuiain demurrer to tho (vni lalnt. Mr. ltaallnawaa about to Interact "aaugkeHou," as hu termed It, but Ogdeu Hllea ahow edilgnaof anger and requirtcdcounael tu wait till hu waa dour, Hecuuld then have lila rily, .Mr, itawllna (good liumortdlyj Hut I want to glvu jcu a falriliaucu to cunaldcr minora that I nuy rahe. Mr. illlea I dou't raru what you ralie. I'll hear )ou, but I don't ilku to boiiileriUlcd. I auppoHo therula noquealbu hut what a bill ot gonda cjuld, at common law, mnlutalu relic re-lic vlu or detinue? Mr. I taw Una (again rlalng and apiak luglu dulcet tonee) Mr. illlea, let mo oakjuua queetlon. la not thla caau brought and ure nottl.cn allegations Imerlid In the complaint In order elm-pi) elm-pi) tomu thucuurt fur the delermlna lion of a matter w hlch doca not pertain lo it lu any ay? Not to get thu Y.iluu of thepu tw u bouka, but limply to e,et thocotirt'a opinion, urn! ao advance tho Intc reata of a political pattyf Ogdell illlea1 face took on a e,ort of rrlmaou hue, and nealu lio rofp ..ated Mr. Itawllna to ceatehlalnlerruptloua. Mr. Itawllna aald huihouU beau lila application to thu cuuit tu dlaulaa title ootlou altogether on thu ground he had ahudowed tortli. Again hw contended that an atteuit had been medu lo uae thu court for au "lmprn.cr purpnae." Mr. illlea 1 hero la no luch uvUmco here. "No, air," (addrwalnt Mr. itawllna) tLe Deiuocrntlo oommllleu of thla Territory would Ilku tu have a union of iheau recorda. rtiat'a all nloutlt. It la not for ua toiomlder here wliatcontentlun thcrumay lw between polltlclana. If thero la anything hero to bu Ulscuaei-d by lawyera Ihat'e all wu havu to do, and hopu wo ehall limp theaui inlnlcnl couieiillona far from our mlnda aud liearla whin dla-cuailug dla-cuailug tho legal queatlona bifb.u thu court. Ccu n, el quoted varloua aulhorltlea, among Hum from Kent'a Comineniurlc-, with regard ti tho rlgliia nfbnlleei, und eurlalu California Califor-nia calm. Judge ino Mr. Itawllna, na tun. ill maud, holda that tho Di'mocrutln central committee, In law la uobudy? (Counail nodded aaaeat.) Mr. Hllee-llut thatlj a more matter of fact, or otlurwlae, llutiiiiou thla quealiou 1 will aik leavo of the court tu amend at to tho i ropoaltton that Mr. Duke la entitled, in liU eiwn rlithl, ua a bailee, lo the poaauilm of Ihtao liouka. I'outnol for thu defendants had aaked thu court la "likn notice no-tice of thu talltlcal tarilea" lu IhlaTirrllory. Ihe Turrliorlnl alatuto provldea what Iho rourl would lake uotlco of, and Itdld not lucludu "theiu varloua political organization! which vex and dliturh thiiiommunlty In thla Territory, or any othc r olltlca I I ante.." Mr. Haw Una madu tho cloalng argil, raent, contending that tlure waa uo balluuut allegid lu Ihlacomplalut u all Tliaallgallon waa that at a par. lliular Horn the plitntll! waatheagei t. I here could bu no bailee wlllu. ut a "bailor," and In thla cate tho parly lu qjeatliin haver had a poaltluu. Tlm a urea of authority waa wanting, aa upptared anlrmatlvely oa the faiu of thu complaint. Ha thought the pleader del kuotr what lio Intended io!caJfanl tho object plainly waatu uiethnoourla for an ul tt-rlur and JmprotT purpoaa. Thla anil nothing moro. riiat object nppeared thu more distinct when they read the opinion which Juallca l,ochrlu dellv-ere dellv-ere I In overruling the demuier, and In which tho tnukawcru aultordlnalu entlril) to a formal legal decl ration that certain mcuconeltiuled the Demo crallo atty lu the Tetrilory of Utah. Thoy had a right tn aaaumo that that declaration waa iinJu at thu InaUnco mil rrquaat of the plalntlll, who brought thu action, and whenever the court waa lutlitled that an action was attempted to bn uiedforiucli pur(ser, It would not ulTer It to tie done. Thu pleading here, wai a alum, It wni Irrelevant; It statcii no caae. in lila opinion the court haiclearl) but one duty hereto here-to dlimlaa the suit at the coat of Iho party bringing II. Judgu Zanu l.lltlly reviewed the clrcuinitancci of thu caae from the tlmooftho bringing nf Ihe action lu Juittce Lochrle'stoutt. Continued ou our ticoml pgu In the leiond edition.) |