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Show FRUIT CASE IS WON BY SAUNTERS After considering tho question sinco Thursday afternoon, the Jury In tho case of George Snndors against Joseph H. Marshall and O. H. Hick-cnlooper, Hick-cnlooper, at 10 o'clock this morning, returned a verdict In favor of the plaintiff, the Judgment being $219 97. The case occupiod the time of tho court about threo days, its hearing having been begun last week and continued con-tinued from Friday to Wednesday of this week. The Jurymen wore James McDeth, Robert B. Wllkenson, C A. Hlnkley, H. J. Ware, W. E. Davis, George W. Etherlngton, C. G. Kind, and Willard Hall. They spent all of last night In the jury' room. Mr. Saunders was suing the defendants defend-ants for the amount of tho judgment on fruit sold them in 1907, 10 per cent of. the purchase price having been paid and an understanding having been had that tho balance would bo paid as soon as the defendants could recover on certain claims against tho railroad companies that had handled the fruit in transportation to the eastern east-ern market The testimony showed that tho defendants de-fendants had not mado sufficient effort ef-fort in tho matter of pressing the claims ngainst the railroads, nearly four years having elapsed since the transaction and the plaintiff having failed to receive payment ou the balance bal-ance of the account. It appeared from the testimony that Marshall and Hick-enlooper Hick-enlooper undertook to handle a part qf the fruit crop in the county north of Ogden and they met with reverses, because of the failure, or refusal, of railroad companies to reimburse them for certain losses sustained by them The defendants paid -10 per cent of the 'claims against them, but, up to this time, thoy have failed to get a settlement with tho companies. no |