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Show IS VEATCH IN CONTEMPT? The Tounff Attorney Hauled TJp Before His Honor, Judge Kinjc, on New and Peculiar Proceeding's. Court Reporter Pike has filed proceedings pro-ceedings in the First District court against Attorney E. A. Veatch. The matter was to have been tried and determined today, but a postponement was had. It appears that in the case of N. W illiams vs. A. F. Whipple judgment judg-ment was granted. The law distinctly specifies that no judgment can be entered en-tered before the reporter's fee is paid. Of course it often happens, in fact it is almost a common practice, that Mr. Pike takes the personal obligations of the attorneys and allows the judgment to be entered. In this case George Sutherland was attorney and Mr. Pike allowed the judgment to be entered with the understanding that he would get hiB money out of the proceeds of the judgment. The judgment, however, how-ever, was assigned to the Consolidated Implement company of s8alt Lake and Mr. Veatch as attorney for that firm stepped in and collected the judgment and costs, paid all the ccsts except the reporter's fee, pocketed hia own fee. and mailed the balance to Salt Lake. Mr. Pike's proceedings ia to compell Mr. Veatch" to pay him his fee which Veatch refuses to do, Mr.Pike alleges that Veatch well knew that the reporter's fee had not b 3en paid , and collected the amount as part of the costs of the case which went with the jOlgment. Mr. Veatch holds that coming com-ing into the case an entire stranger to all prior proceedings and finding the judgment entered he had the right to assume and did assume that the reporter's re-porter's fee had been paid Inasmuch as the iaw distinctly specifies that the reporter's fee shall be paid before the judgment is entered: that if anyone should suffer less because of the error in allowing the judgment to be entered en-tered before the fee was paid it should be the report. It is a rather interesting case ot which all the attorneys of the bar are looking eagerly. The majority of them seem to think that Reporter Pike has the best end of it. At the preliminary hearing had yesterday yes-terday Ju&se King laid it down very emphatically that he would hold attorneys at-torneys more etrictly to the rule in matters such as th se than he would anyone else. Atttorneys are supposed to know the rules and practice et the court and not to trifle with them. He seemed to be of the opinion that it is the bounden duty of each and every attorney to ascertain positively if all the costs in a case have been fully paid before that case is closed up and settled. S. K. King will defend Mr. Veatch's case for him. It comes up on Saturday next. |