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Show COURT SESSION FINALLY ENDS January Term of Court Closes After Eight Days' Grind Convictions Secured in Blank, Cramer, Thompson, and Morasco Cases After one of the busiest sessions ii.-.ovn, the Emery county division of he Seventh Judicial district finally .vnrl.'ted its work here Wednesday (Veiling. Many cases that have long been on the calender were disposed of anJ others which did not even get on the ! calendar, were equally summarily dealt with. The cri ninal cise against Martin Blank accused of sheepstealing, disced dis-ced of last week, bat in which sentence sen-tence was postponed, was dispatched Monday morning when the defendant w::5 given eighteen months at hard labor lab-or in the state prison. The Morasco case, which was in progress pro-gress as we went to press last week was f rished Saturday, the jury bringing in a verdict of guilty. The defendant, who xho was accused of attempted sodomy upon the person of littl ' Robert, the five year old sm nf Mr. and Mrs. William P. Reiser of Mobrland, was sentenced to t vo years in the state penitentiary. The defendant, Nicholas Kramer informed against as John Doe, a former tT.jloye of the Arnold cafe, an establish estab-lish neat located at Green River.an 1 ac-i-2l of pilfering .a fe-v articles of weaving aDparel from the store of the V.idty Mercantile company at that r'ace, plead guilty to burglary in the third degree and was sentenced" to six months at hard labor. The case of burglary charged against 3 anley Jensen of Ferron was dismissed , n recommendation of District Attorney V."o .Is, that able interpreter of the law ' n aintaining that there was insufficient j t?i ience (o secure a conviction. A v-rdict of guilty was returned by the jury in the cas- against Willis Thompson of Ferron, and the sente.ice the court was that the defendant be ennp lied to pay the sum of $150 i the first year and $100 per year for the wcy ding seventeen years toward the support of the minor in the case. A jury tri;il had been asked for the hng standing Spencer vs. Peterson case ail everthi ig wis in readiness for proceeding when it was found tint i nportant witnesses for th-? defendant 're uoabl- to atteni so that the case was passed for the term. The case of the Rocky Mountain Stud Farm Co., vs. M. S. Truman, and otners, was given a jury trial and one of the most interesting cases on the calendar was given a long and thorough irinif.' The plaintiff, a firm with he?d-quarters he?d-quarters in Ogden was suing a number of promininent Huntington men, for hreach of agreement, the gentleman referred to having refused to make any further payments on notes given on the P'-rchase of a stallion from the plaintiff jmpany,the horse having been refused u:jn the discovery of certain deteriorating deteriorat-ing habits in the horse. Tne jury on this case had a hard time coming to the necessary three-forths vote, but it was Inally accomplished and a verdict returned re-turned against the plaintiff company. Other cases not given last week were disposed of as follows: Cinil Cases Law and Motion A. D. Wilson, vs. The Green River Mutual Irrigation Company, a corporation, corpora-tion, defendant. Demurrer to amended complaint. Passed for term. Lulu D. Pratt, vs R. M. Eldred. et defendant. Passed for term. Fruit Growers State Bank, vs. Frank J. Cook. Disposition later. American National Bank, vs. Frank Cck and E. J. Cook. Disposition later. American National Bank, vs. J. M. French, et al. Disposition later. Civil Division Trial Cases Eliza J. King, vs. Harry L. Gregory Id Gregory. Demurrer to com plaint. Demurrer over-ruled. Defendant Defend-ant given sixty davs to answer. The Seiber Cattle Co., a corporation, vs. L W. McCarty and E. D. Levitt. Passed for term. Elizabeth Stoveken, vs. Rod McDonald et al. Transferred to Carbon county. Christine Stookey, vs. Joseph A. Stookey. Transferred to Carbon Co. Geo. W. Bra.idon, vs. T. B. Vaughn. Judgment given for amount of note to gether with interest at ten percent and $50 attorney's fee. Thursa Olsen, vs. Sophus Olsen. Settled. Set-tled. Zadie P. Fox, formerly Zadie B. Farnham, vs. J. H. Parton. Transferred Transfer-red to Carbon county. C H. Stevenson Lumber Co., a partnership part-nership consisting of C. H. Stevenson and Elizabeth Stevenson, vs. Thomas E. Davis. Passed. J. H. Parton, vs. Zaaie P. Fox, formerly form-erly Farnham. Transferred to Carbon. Christensen, vs. Christensen. Inter-culalory Inter-culalory decree granted. Fairbanks, M. & Co., vs. A. M. Steele. Not disposed of. Probate Cases In the matter of the Adoption of Lareta Mclntyre, a. minor. Petition for adoption. Passed." " In the matter of the Estate of C. P. Anderson, deceased. Petition for summary sum-mary administration. Granted. In the Matter of the Estate of Ever Gregersen, deceased. Petition for summary sum-mary administration. Granted. j In the matter of the Estate of Dinah Wrigley, deceased. Petition for letters Granted. In the matter of the estate of William Taylor, deceased. Petition for gale of real estate. Granted. In the matter of the estate of B. F. Pettey, deceased. Petition for letters. Granted. In the matter of the estate of Thomas M. Howard, deceased. Special administratrix admin-istratrix appointed. |