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Show 1 ! ) ioiEjraiiciiii' J. W. Hoover, Jr., Gels Away With His Suit. The Judge Decides a Pflan ftJust Stay With His Attachment At-tachment in Person. Divorce Cases Dismissed, - erne Granted, and Others Set for Hearing. Court resumed session at ten o'clock on Thursday morning. ' The case of the U. S. vs. C. C. A. Christensen, for unlawful cohabitation, cohabita-tion, was called and a jury impaneled. Jno. M. Zane prosecuted and W. II. King defended. The indictment charges thedefendant with unlawfully cohabiting with Eliza Christensen and Mary Christensen as his wives at Ephraim, Sanpete" county, betw'eo'n October, 1SS6, and September, 18S0. This case was tried before the last term of court and was appealed to the Supreme Court, who ordeied a new J'ial. "After the evidence for the prosecution prosecu-tion was heard, the prosecuting attorney at-torney asked his honor to instruct the jury to return a verdict of not gui'ty, which was accordingly done. Court adjourned uutd 10 o'clock Friday morning. FRIDAY. Court resumed session at ten o'clock. In the case of R. M. Rogers vs. Daniel Cook et al., the motion for a new trial was overruled. In the case of Arthur Ilolmau vs. Pleasant Grove city, an order, overruling over-ruling a motion for a new trial was issued. In the case of W. R. May vs. Xephi Irrigation Company, an order dismissing dismis-sing the case was issued. The following divorce cases were dismissed: Caroline Sorenson vs. Frederick Sorensen; Angus Butler vs. Matilda Butler; Jeaunette McGregor vs. Charles B. McGregor. Court adjourned wmtil ten o'clock Saturday morning. SATURDAY. In the case of Josephine Cautlion vs. Daniel Cautlion, a divorce was granted. The case of Thomas Fowler vs. Benjamin Bachman was called and a jury impaneled. Geo. Sutherland and Messrs. King & lloutz appeared for plaintiff and M. M. Kellogg for defendant. de-fendant. This case relates to the Harris failure, in which the plaintiff, being sheriff of Utah county, closed the store and attached ths goods upon suit of Spencer Clawson. lie alleges that after his attachment, Marshal Bachman Bach-man levied on some goods that were in a small store room at the back on an execution in favor of J. W. Hoover and that the door had been broke a open by defendant, in the night time, and the goods removed. The defendant defend-ant on the other hand claims he had a right to levy on the goods on the execution. exe-cution. Sheriff Fowler was the first witness. He testified that lie had attached the store of Joseph A. Harris and all gonds around the store, and also in the small storeroom in the rear of the store, on the morning ot March 23rd, ami that he had his attachment served five hours previous to the serving of the execution in favor of J. W. Hoover, by defendant. Several other witnesses were examined exam-ined for the plaintiff. The defense claimed that, Thomas Fowler, after levying on the goods, did not stay in the building, and therefore there-fore when defendant found the storeroom store-room unoccupied, he levied on it. Evidence was introduced, and after argument the case was submitted to the jury, who returned a verdict for the defendant. Xiels Poison, a native of Sweden, applied for admission to citizenship, but as he could not read or write in the English language His Honor refused re-fused to grant him naturalization papers. Court was adjourned until Monday morning at ten o'clock. |