Show So UTAH LAKE SUIT I WAY WA y CLEARED I i. i 1 Another legal point which threatened threatened threat threat- ened ened to become troublesome Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day in connection with the Third district court suit of Associated Canal Companies to adjudicate Utah I l lake c and tributary water rights has been J ee l overcome t It Involved the serving of nearly 2000 show cause orders on as many many d defendants citing clUng them to appear in court December f I and give reasons if any they have why the pie court should not assume jurisdIction jurisdiction jurisdiction juris juris- diction over the hc waters Ordinarily district court orders other than summonses must be served by the Sheriff or one of his deputies and the customary fee Is 1 per service I. I To Reduce Costs 1 In the current case however attorneys at at- for Salt Lake City and the canal anal companies claiming Infringement infringement Infringe- Infringe ment nent of their purported primary rights to the water obtained a signed order from District Judge Allen G. G Thurman granting authority authority authority author author- ity for persons other than the sher sher- ill iff and his deputies to serve the citations It was understood this will vIll enable enable enable en en- able attorneys for the plaintiffs to hire proc process ss servers by the month to complete the unprecedented task The he action is also expected to re reduce reduce ye- ye duce materially plaintiffs' plaintiffs initial court costs Returns by December I Returns on most of the citations I Indicating whether agents have failed or or been successful in locating those to whom the orders signed by District Judge Roger I. I McDonough arc are directed are expected to be complete before December 1 thus allowing a minimum of six days' days interval between the time the last defendant is served and the date He lie is to appear in court and answer the citation The case first attracted attention on date of its filing May 28 when It was dubbed the biggest water lawsuit ever filed in the history of Utah Next it gained attention when Judge McDonough was called upon by the plaintiffs to sign the show y cause orders To comete complete com corn ete that unprecedented judicial act Judge Judg McDonough used a a. a rubber rubberstamp rubberstamp rub rub- ber stamp ber-stamp stamp and personally supervised operations as carried on by a corps of court clerks |