| Show A JUDGE S HOULD SHOULD NOT STOP HIS JIB ils EARS AGAINST denoe DENCE lt IN regard to the tho assumption that the ads lady ady plaintiff in the recent alimony pen pende donta dents rde vee lite case in this city was the first living wife of the defendant 1 j fen dant and the tho p partisan a artisan asset assertion r on that the alimony decision of the late C galef alef justice was sustained b by y certain good lawyers the central zaw law jott Juit rna of slay alay 7 has the following 1 in the evident rancor which exists between saints faints and gentiles in ili salt lake 3 we doubt whether 1 there are any members of the bar of that city unprejudiced oil on this question 2 it is very pro problematic a 1 what sort of lawyers a bitter part izan journal like the salt lake would consider unprejudiced 3 we do not believe and shall not believe until we have better evidence for it than the editorial columns col coi of the salt lake that the san francisco bar ar association ll 11 has s appi appl approved oved this decree bar associations are not kotyo so fan fon far fa r Ss we are acquainted with them tremm in the ohp approving DC nr disapproving jud judgments ridente of the counts courts particularly those ilose of other states and territories than their own owin and which relate to local questions 4 we know linow a number of illel lawyers who beliefs that judge mckean could und should have hwe decided otherwise judge U g mckean knew as a ju judge tb at ti if ann eliza ellza young was n tew lew of brigham young sh she rhe was fis not bt entitled to alimo alimony nf he kolew as 1 a I man inan that bhe ehe wa was not the wine wife il i re BrIgham of young it was therefore his duty to inform himself of this fact as a judge before granting such nn an allowance and this he could no doubt douht have quickly done by opening his ears to evidence the point we insist upon is that A judge has no right light to stop hi his s ears against evidence and planting himself on a technicality to decide a quis question tion on an assumed state of facts which he knows to be false our reasons for assuming that judge mckean knew as a man wan that t the e plaintiff was not the wife of brigham young are that every intelli gent person knew it for vor the last year she has straddled around abouzid the country and published the fact heiselt in public lectures which the bhe has delivered not hot oily olly oiin to the principal cities of bf but also in salt lake city indeed her avowed status as the tile nineteenth wife of the prophet 3 is a matter of such historical notoriety that thal no intelligent person could plead wead ignorance of jt it 1 |
