| Show FULLER AND FOUND TO BE IN CONTEMPT water must be allowed to flow unimpeded by the eden water users from wednesdays standard la the third district court judge gave hla in the contempt of court proceedings in the case ot william geddes et al vs the north ogden irrigation company finding george A fuller and J A stallings guilty of contempt of court and discharging dan kindsay Ind say the con tempt la only of a technical nature and carries with it the costs ot tha trial in his decision judge ritchie says that he did not believe that there had been a wilful violation of the injunction but that the injunction had been violated and that there was no other course for the court than to adjudge the defendants to be in contempt the decision is far reaching in Us effect and deprives the farmers of the eden district of the water for which they have been contesting and the injunction entered by judge howell one of the attorneys in speaking c tho case saad that after the plain city case had been tried judge booth had decided that tho water taken perca through the soil to bed rock and made sub reservoirs which eventually emptied into the river again without great loss in quantity when the injunction was granted the respondents thought that they could disregard the injunction and it called upon to explain why they were not in contempt of court they could give as an excuse the decision rendered by judge booth As soon as the attorneys for the learned of tha decision of judge they immediately took steps to have their clients secure the water given them under the uon |
