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Show j Litigation Slacks; 1 Case In Court i Opening of the January term nf ' the district court at Manti Monday j of this week, was marked with an ' unusual phenomena and brought : about a condition that has not cor.-j cor.-j fronted the judiciary for many years, i In the ope n int.: of the court there, ' was one lone case set for the tTiii, ; find that was the case of the state i of Utah against Albert Peterson, charged with a statutory offrno. j This c;i:-c, too, w.os deferred, "'.rr; set for next Monday. Ordinarily, tho calendar is filled with a number of i both criminal and civil actions, but j with the beginning of the year, the calendar was dear with the ex'-rp-tion of the one case above noted. ' The presiding judtrr, county attorney attor-ney and other court ;itt;icb"s, naturally natur-ally wore nonplused at th" unusual , occurrence and pondered oyer the sit-J sit-J uation, arriving at the conclusion that j people were careful about entering into litigation, or reaching the con- elusion that Sanpete citizenry was i going straight and avoiding court actions. |