Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-13 | Page 19 | Jury Acquits Two Farmers

I jURY ACQUITS I TWO FARMERS I Singletons Charged With Diverting Water Held HeldI I I By Skeen I Jesse JeSle SIngleton and John Sin Sin- Singleton SIn SIn-leton gleton arren arron farmers were ere found not guilty of ot dh water ater be- be belonging be k be-k longing lon to Joseph Skeen from the Warren ditch by a jury In Judge JudgeD D R Roberts city court Saturday e about 6 S o'clock The jury which Mch was Composed ot of John McCoy Benjamin R H A Norris Norri and Charles Charle AI A Gro Groes es was as w s out only about 15 minutes tee teeThe The Tho Singleton brother brothen are said I to 10 have been charged with unlawfully unlawfully fully tully taking the water In tn order that thata a precedent might br bl b set more than Ihan to secure lecure a 0 conviction The Th usual custom Is to take the lh water I I In turn beginning at the tho head ot of the ditch In his Instructions to the jury lodge Roberts declared In effect that Inasmuch as the tho basis of right ht rested upon time or hours ot of use ue e that the users mers might con coney ey that water r an anywhere that the the chose within those hours each In h turn under under the cus- cus custom torn tom regardless of at where here the land lay layThe The Singleton brothers brother were rep rep- represented represented resented by Former Judge A A E Ei Pratt n- n