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Show (MY SHORTAGE CAUSE i OF 1 ACTION IN DISTRICT CDUflT I An erho of the hay shortage of a year ago was heard in iho district I court when the case of Hansen Live- stock S- Feeding company vs. Otto I Meek and the Ogden Sale company, came up for trial, in which a decision baa JUSl been handed down by Judge Pratt . w hi-rein he awards the Hansen Livestock & Feeding company a judgment judg-ment for $1605.24. In February, 1917, the Hansen Livestock Live-stock & Feeding company entered into a contrai l with the defendants for the purchase of 300 ton? of lucern ha v. .it Deitrlch, Idaho, at $14.50 per ton the hay to be shipped to Ogden as rapidly as cars could he obtained. It appears that the defendants shipped approximately approxi-mately 187 tons and failed to ship the balance of 'he 300 tons, and the Han-i-en Livestock & Feeding company was compelled tb go into the open market and purchase hay at whatever price it could obtain for it, and because of the shortage of hay at the time, the company com-pany was compelled to pay at high as $32 per ton, thereupon, through iheir attorneys Chei & Stine, they instituted litigation against the defendants for the difference, and judgment has been awarded by the court. In the same action the defendants et up a counter-claim, alleging that they rented their stockyards to the plaintiff in the year 1917, and asked judgment in iho sum of $4030.25 for i he use ol -aid stockyards, which the defendant, Ogden Sale company alleged, alleg-ed, was tin reasonable value thereof, but the court in his decision, allowed them on their counter-claim, the sum of $5S1.67. oo |