Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-05-13 | Page 2 | Disputed Land Action up in Court

m rUTn lAND I ACTION A ur UP IN II nURr T i I Hearing of Claim laim to t Ten TenI I I Acres Acrs cr s in ty Suburbs f Held by by State as School Section tion Engages g Judge Judg EV EVIDENCE to to- show v hoy that that t L- L a land has lias b been en enI n I fenced e ed for for-at l. l least a t t thirty ye years rs and that the greater part of that t time me it has been under t p was introduce l by Oscar W W. Moyle fo counsel for the plaintiff i in t the e case of ot Ge Sa Saxton on the Utah begun in fn Judge Wilson Vilson McCarthys McCarthy's division o of the Third district district dis dis- court co lod today y 1 I Saxton claims ownership to ten acres of or land on the west side of Nineteenth East street t Just below Seventeenth South street The state claims th the land landis is part of ot it a a school schoot se section tio l and that there is Is' ino no adverse title The fhe value of or orthe the land Is estimated at ARISE OF CONTROVERSY V 1 The Tle con controversy trover y arose arose n 19 1917 7 when the present lessee W. W B B. B Gardner started to plant a crop ClOP after he hats had teased leased the ground from the state board f ft of t land land land- commissioners ners Mn Mr Saxton in intervened intervened in- in rv ned with his claim and the mat mat- matt t ter r w was s turned over to Attorney General General Gen Gen- eral Dan B. B St Shields elds by bythe the land com com- missioners The state is' is being represented b by Herbert Van Dam Jr as assistant assistant assistant as- as attorney general t F F. C. C Loofbourow former judge in district court testified the land I. I ha had been purchased by his rather father C. C F. F Loofbourow- Loofbourow from John Alston in p 1889 The witness produced memoranda emor- emor aida anda of ot his liis father tather Which counsel for tor Saxton introduced cf to show ownership b by the j cr Loofbourow LO JG UNDE UNDER LENDER CUL CULTIVATION Mrs l rs Louis Bertagnoli Bertagnoll and Mrs Elenora Thompson who have lived inthe Inthe in the vicinity of ot the disputed land for thirty ye years rs testified the land laud hasI has b been n cultivated by by numerous persons I during the time of their r residence in jn inthe inthe the neighborhood Johanna Martin wife o ot John Martin Martin Mar Mar- tin who is alleged alleged- to have been Mar Mar-I one of the owners of the the- land was wa's was Intro by the state at al l the resumption I of ot the the hearing har g this afternoon me n. n c 1 I