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Show UUKB URGED ON 'PAUPER' COURT CASE 'RACKET7 hire en liquor going Int I the district court mml bo paid te I I I the state general fund made de- I mand an Salt Lake county to land to tha ttata treasury Wl remitted I ay tha county to Belt Laka City i A low ahould b paaaad to euro ta impecunious affidavit "rao-ksf "rao-ksf in Bolt Laka county, It was suggested In'' a raport completed Tuesday In tha office ef State Auditor John W. Guy. Tha raport polntad out tha Third diatrict court haa baan flooded with eoaaa accompanied by affi-davita affi-davita that platntiffa wtra unabla to aland court coata. "Impaeunioua diatrict court Oesee filed In tha clerk'a office - have reached aucb proportion, and are still Increasing, that It could almost bo said that thie particular particu-lar thin has reached the "racket state,'' the report ststed. "It la tha recommendation of tha offica that tha ltst legislature pasa a bill requiring all impecunious impe-cunious plaintiffs to appear before the county clerk or hie deputies with tha proper proof that they are impecunious and that court coala ahould not be asaeaeed. "We believe that this will do away with well over M per cant of theae eaaea and tend to make our diatrict courts more self-sufficient." self-sufficient." The report shows that between January 1, 1J7. and Juna it, 13. there were M of theae caaee filed la Third diatrict court through the Salt Laka county clerk's offica. pf theae IT wars later paid. John W. Avery, deputy stats auditor, who made tha report, aaid ha had figured during the period from January 1, 1MT ta October, 131, the state lost about $1000, and the county at toast a like amount from those eases. "We are of the opinion that this matter ahould have had the attention atten-tion of the county auditor, but we are Informed by Mr. (Alvln) Ked-dlngton, Ked-dlngton, chief deputy In tha county coun-ty clerk's office, that no audit report re-port has sver beea made en this," the report continued. The audit report acting upon a recent attorney general'a opinioa which bald all finaa and forfel- e end $111.80 still retained by the ooun'y. Mr. Guy pointed out the enact-ment enact-ment of a law would probably solve the difficulty, for under It the plain, tiff would be required ta go before the county clerk to present definite evidence of his Impecunious eo million mil-lion and ta aiga the affidavit Preaent procedure allows the plaintiff to sign the affidavit elsewhere. |