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Show IJOIISUIT HALTS ACTION AGAINST WODLLEY Judge WiffHt Takes Action Ac-tion on aVlleged Oral Agreement The caae brought agalnot Ernest R. Wool ley by Elggren Brothers to collect' a judgment of $11. (K for moneys alleged to have been paid Into the Utah-Montane Sugar company, com-pany, came to aa abrupt atop this morning In Judge L B. Wlght'sdl (vlalon of the Third district court when Judge Wight granted a motion mo-tion for nonsuit made Friday by, i counsel for the defendant, Mr. Woolley.' The complaint eat forth that Elggren Elg-gren broth era signed an agreement In ltia to underwrite UMO. of a $:00.t00 bond laaue for the purpose of financing the Utah-Montana Sugar company. They paid in $aO0 of the eubacrlbed amount and also ! allege they paid ttbM for stock. The action wae instituted to recover the 1 gum of these two amounts lli.ooe. ! In seeking the nonsuit, the defense attorneys set up the statute of frauda, atatute of Umltatlona and In all enumerated fourteen point a. but all of them are disregarded bv the court and the nonsuit la based upon entirely different grounds. Judga Wight merely aaya that purported pur-ported oral agreements between the three Elggren brut here of repreaent-atlvee repreaent-atlvee of their firm and Mr, Woolley cannot be enforoed. The defenae argued that the Elggren .brothers agreed to release tha balance which they owed on the eubacrlbed bond laaue In consideration of the total of llS.Ooe. which they had paid In. The plaint If fa contended there waa an oral agreement which the court holda cannot be an force I. I. S. Mtraup. D. M. Draper. Herbert Her-bert Van Dam Jr. and Arthur Woolley of Ogden represented the defendant. The law firm of Souls and Spalding represented the plaintiffs. plain-tiffs. , |