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Show THE SPECIAL SESSION OPENED ON MONDAY District court opened on Monday with Judge J. E. Booth of Provo on the bench, Judge Christensen not being able to attend on account of sickness in his family. The first case to come up for hearing was the case of the Independent Canal & Reservoir Co., vs. the Emery County Land & Water Co., both corporations. The water right involved being the water now used by the latter company on its ranch at Rochester. G. A. Iver-son Iver-son and S. A. King are attorneys for the plaintiff company while the defense is looked after by E. A. Wedgewood. The Independent company was the former owners of the water which was transferred to the Emery County company com-pany when they acquired their holdings. hold-ings. Their contention is that they retained re-tained certain rights in the water at the time of the transfer which form the basis of the present suit. There were many legal bickerings in bringing this Cc.se to trial and it took time but got to trial at last. G. W. Laing is the main witness in the case and up to last night he was the only witness examined. The case is still in progress at this writing. At odd times during the session the following cases have been disposed of: In the matter of the estate of Win. Taylor, deceased, it was ordered that F. A. Killpack be appointed administrator adminis-trator of said estate and his bond fixed at $500. In the case of Geo. W. Middleton vs. Julia B. Middleton, the affidavit and motion to show cause on behalf of G. W. Middleton came on for hearing before be-fore the court and was argued by the counsel. After consideration the case was ordered transferred to Carbon county. It was ordered that plaintiff .pay defendant the sum of $50 before said hearing. In the case of Ellis e. Wilcox vs. James H. Wilcox, upon the application of defendant the time for the said de-endant de-endant to answer was extended to January Jan-uary 15, 1911. In the Geo. Ipson administration the droinistratrix was ordered to surrender K),000 in the Ipson Indicator Co. and accept in lieu thereof 2000 shares in the new company. Later The principal issues in the water-right case were settled out of court Friday afternoon and the other questions continued, the court adjourning ad-journing Friday night. The chances seem to be in favor of a full settlement settle-ment of the case between the parties. |