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Show MAN AND WOMAN FIGHT WITH CLUB AND MILK PAIL During tho trial of the caso of Ella Sluiw vs. John Edward Huntur, one of tho larguut crowds of witnwss-es, witnwss-es, spectators and parties of interest was in attondance ut tho Millard county court room lust week that has ever been present in this county. The case was brought by Mrs. Shav: against the defendant for damages as a result of physical encounter between be-tween Mrs. Shaw and Mr. Hunter which occurred in the corral of the defendant last August. It appeared from the evidence that a quite lively combat was engaged in at the time when the damage complained com-plained of occurred. The actual hostilities hos-tilities between the parties appeared from the evidence to have been the result in part of a difference over a small wage due Mrs. Shaw's son, who had worked for the defendant. It further appeared that the plaintiff plain-tiff resorted in the preliminary stage-es stage-es of the affray to the use of either a "lilac twig" or a "wood club," the evidence in this regard being somewhat some-what conflicting. As a counter to this sort of attack Mr. Hunter testified testi-fied he resorted to the use of a milk pail, which was conveniently at hnnd using the milk pail with its contents as a weapon. As the affray progressed it appears ap-pears the pair abandoned their artificial arti-ficial weapons and proceeded, each in his or her own manner as best suited, to wage their offense and defense de-fense in "hand to hand" procedure. This sort of tactics lead to a "clinch" which it appeared from Mr. Hunter's testimony resulted in Mrs. Shaw being be-ing put to the ground, from which position the defendant secured her admission that she had "had enough." Ho described just the manner of the previously mentioned "clinch," his version being that Mrs. Shaw scratched scratch-ed his face and got her fingers in his eye in connection with her clinching clinch-ing tactics, his activity in the clinch was to get Mrs. Shaw by the hair, thus throwing her to the ground. Testimony further brought out that statements had been attributed to Mrs. Shaw as having stated that she could whip any man in Ilolden, and that after the affair with Mr. Hunter when asked in this regard, that the reply was that she could have whipped whip-ped him had she known beforehand that he would fight. Numerous witnesses having been called by both sides and argument having been made by counsel for each side, the case was submitted to the jury with the court's instructions. The jury after a comparatively short deliberation de-liberation returned a verdict of no cause of action. |
