Show district court the district court of the fourth judicial district convened monday april 2 1903 the court officials present were judge john E booth I 1 district attorney Attorn eyl D D houtz and court sten ogra pher albert homer among other matters the following occupied the attention of the courts court criminal cases passed lor for the term state of utah vs 11 II flemming rl emming and two cades both entitled the state of utah vs john jopes jocies flemming FI emming it will be remembered escaped from the custody of the sheriff last summer bummer and jones jonea is serving a sentence in the state prison both are charged with graid gra grif id larceny the civil case of harrison vs E J young sr was waa passed for the terns term but set for hearing the first day of the june term of court the attorneys for the plaintiff were frick ed represented by D D pfoutz the defendant is represented by john T pope with don B colton as associate counsil this case is an action brought to recover coer re property alleged not to have been avol involved ed in the bank ank I 1 proceedings ell eli marshall was examined as to his sanity by judge booth attorney houtz and doctors H C II If and garrett odonnell the court decided that he is not a proper subject for the state mental hospital gertrude pearce wife ot lafayette pearce fearce was granted a decree of divorce ar d the custody of her two minor children the evidence given by gertrude pearce and mrs jane S rich was that lafayette pearce was a habitual drunkard and had not provided a collat for the support of his wife and children for over two years mrs deaice had sup ported herself and two children by as a domestic during the past year sho she has been employed at the cottage hotel the parties had not spoken to each other during the two years of their separation the causes for which aich the divorce div orceN was as granted were desertion and failure to provide the case of the state of utah vs J B vancleave Van Cleavo occupied the time of almost an entire session of court the information which was sworn to by district attorney D D houtz alleges that on march lat 1906 the defendant sold one gallon of alcohol at fort duchesne to john blair an indian of the half blood attorneys J A wilson L N meridath and T W odonnell appeared as counsel for the defendant the argument which aich occupied the time was on a demurer demerer to the information the contention of the attorney ne s for the defendant was that john blair being a citizen of the united states had a constitutional right to purchase liquor attorney houtz made an able argument in support of the constitutionality of the state law under which the prosecution of vancleave VanCI eave was instituted the demurer demerer was overruled the prisoner was arraigned and entered a plea of not guilty the case was continued till the june term of court and the bond of vancleave was fixed at the civil case of lennhoff vs lee came up on a motion of the attorney for plaintiff that new a trial be granted the motion was denied this case is a suit brought by mrs jenny lennhoff Lenn hofT against E C lee to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been receive dby mrs lennhoff while traveling on the stage between price and vernal the stage was owned and operated by mr air lee the case of the naples mercantile company vs geo goodrich was settled v out of court this case was an action on the part of the tile company brought to r 60 50 the attorneys in the case were john T pope for the plaintiffs T W odonnell and don B colton for the defendant at the time of the of the vernal milling and livestock company the eleven acres of land upon which the null mill stood was overlooked and not included in the list of property of the company therefore in compliance N with nith ith the petition of samuel R k bennion and W 11 II formerly president and secretary respectively of the corporation harden bennion was appointed receiver and instructed to receive ohp th above mentioned eleven acres of land and distribute the money among stockholders of the former corporation po ration ionin in proportion to their holdings at the date of incorporation dis mr beamons Ben Benn mons ions bord was fixed at 1200 C B atwood et al Ys vs harden dennion bennion et al john T pope and don it colton attorneys for plaintiffs D D houtz and T W odonnell at for defendants As the county surveyor 9 had been instructed by the ourt murt to take accurate measurements of the land and w ater affected b by the stase case and as he had been unable knabl to measure the water because of alt t tream stream being frozen the case was for the term case of michael rlynn Ys va joseph burton T W odonnell attorney for plaintiff john T pope attorney for defendant fen dant this thia action was waa brought to collect a claim for er vices arno amounting 9 to judgement Jud gement was given against burton for 15 case of westover vcr vs beddo john T pope attorney for plaintiff T W 0 donnell attorney for defendants this case was a controversy over the 0 ownership ner of a horse decided in favor of westover Wea tover defendants to pay all costa of court the two and one half year old child of the late john mantle was adopted by mr and mrs james jamea C hacking the name by which the child la is s to be known is 13 bryan mantle hacking |