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Show ALL PARTIES INWDGEWT DFIWTEWTTO DELAY CITY COURT W H. Reeder, city attorney, pleaded not guilty to responsibility for adjournment ad-journment of municipal court yesterday, yester-day, by failure of his department to be represented for tho prosecution of complaints. The city attornoy explained ex-plained he had business in tho district court and his assistant, David L. Stine. was compelled to appear in tho su- premo court. Judgo George S. Barker, who adjourned ad-journed municipal court yesterday be-causo be-causo there was no ropresentativo of the legal department in attendance to prosecute tho complaints, stated that he did not clearly understand that the city attorney was busy with a city case in the district court. Ho added, too, that it was well that a combination combina-tion of circumstances, in which all parties par-ties wore innocent, brought tho matter up and that it Is now fully understood that prompt attendance will be expected. ex-pected. City Attornoy Reeder issued a formal statement this morning relative to his department'3 attendance upon municipal munici-pal court. Tho statement is signed by both the city attorney and David L. Stine, his assistant. It is as follows: Attorney's Statement. "Concerning the alleged reprimand of Ogden City's legal department in last evening's Standard, we do not wish to defend ourselves at all. The facts speak for themselves. We were both engaged in Ogden City's business at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Mr. Stine. who has been attendincr to no- lice court matters in the Municipal court, was in Salt Lake City, defend-I defend-I ing an ordinance of Ogden City beforo the Supreme court, in tho Zamata case, tried by him in the district court for Ogden City. I was in the District court, pursuant to notice that there was a special motion to bo taken up "beforo Judge Agee in the case of Lilly May Shapley against Ogden City. "Before going to the District court, I telephoned to tho clerk of tho municipal mu-nicipal court and told him of these appointments. In tho district court, I arranged with Mr. Chez, tho attorney for Mrs. Shapley. to havo the motion i disposed of by Judge Ageo in chambers, cham-bers, by agreement of counsel, and proposed the matter to the court as soon as opportunity was afforded. I did this in order to attend upon the I municipal court, and proceeded with jvery little delay to the municipal court, to find it adjourned. "We believe in starting the municipal munici-pal court on time. We not only believe I in it, but we havo thus far practiced it. Every time we have attended the municipal court we have been there on timo, without ono exception, and expect to do so to every reasonable extent. If matters in the higher courts are occupying our attention for Ogden City, we expect tho lower court to defer de-fer to these higher courts, which has always been the practice, as we cannot be in more than one place at a time." Judge Barker's Comment. Judge Barker read the statement immediately after tho adjournment of municipal court this morning. He stated that with the exception of yesterday yes-terday ho had observed, with much satisfaction, that the city attorney or his assistant had been in prompt attendance at-tendance He declared, however, that the court policy will be to require punctuality punc-tuality from all parties. "I did not clearly understand that the city attorney was in the district court upon city business." said Judge Baker. "In that caso tho municipal always will yield. Thero havo been delays unnecessary delays in the municipal court and it is fortunate that a combination of circumstances created creat-ed yesterday's situation. No one apparently ap-parently is guilty, but it has tended to make it plain to all parties concerned that punctuality will be the policy of I this court." City Attorney Reeder made a verbal explanation to the board of city commissioners com-missioners last night substantially identical to the formal statement issued is-sued this morning. He directed his statement to a report carried in the Standard last evening relative to the I adjournment of municipal court yesterday yes-terday morning. , Court convened strictly on the dot today. |