Show scene in a utah court there is is a queer judicial muddle in utah and the eccentricities of mckean chief justice of the territorial supreme court threaten to culminate in a lunatic asylum a y lum As s a apart part of ortho tiie tile anti mormon crusade of 1870 a decision was rendered oll oli ousting sting the territorial marshal marshai meal mca mea allister Al 11 llster lister e r 1 from r 0 in office and enabling t the he united i 1 te d states marshal orr on to discharge the duties and collect the fees of both marshal ships orr became a d defaulter his successor patrick now holds executions against him and liis ills bondsmen for the amount of the defalcation but orr anil anti patrick patriek since may 1870 as united states state marshals performed the tho duties of territorial marshals until the supreme court of the united states rendered a decision in the tile engelbrecht case declaring tile the wp offices distinct and pronouncing a united states marshal incompetent to perform tile the functions of a territorial rit orial luar inar marshai marshal shai it is therefore said to follow that all the juries junies drawn and andl andi processes odesses served in that capacity by orr and patrick have invalidated the tile trials since 1870 ailing the th e records and judicial business of the territorial supreme court with mischievous confusion nevertheless chief justice mckean at uhe the opening of the current durrent term of the court attempted to make the worse vo arse confounded by setting aside the decision of the thu supreme court of fhe the united states mcallister had resumed his duties as territorial brial marshal and had been permitted to open court and serve all groces processes ses since the Engel engelbrecht breM brel decision but chief justice mckean seizes the first convenient occasion to decide that lie he ignot is not a territorial marshal and cannot legally legal 1 y perform any official act this announcement was followed by gulte quite a wrangle between the bench and the bar the latter refusing to proceed with trials which could amount to nothing under the conflicting decisions of meli mckean ean and the adreme tribunal of the nation they intimated p pretty plainly that his ills honor was a fit subject for a writ de lura luna lunatics tico and his honor abruptly adjourned court advising the bar bat to fro guw 11 go o home and and study geometry or the tho bible st louis republican |