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Show : HUDSON AVENUE PHOPEKTY VALUE V Court Now Engaged in Awarding to the Owners of Condemned Property the Value of the Interests Involved in Opening the Avenue Judge Lewis Will Be Busy All Week. Thero Is much doing in the second district ccurt today, two judges being employed to handlo ihe husineBs. Judge T. D. Lewis, of the Third district dis-trict court, is holding forth in the court room ou the second floor of tho court house and Judge Howell Is hearing cases in the commissioner's I room on the second lloir of the building. build-ing. Judge Lrewfs Is here for tho solo ' purpose of hearing the condemnation proceedings of Ogden City against property owners on Hudson avenue. 3Ie stated to tho attorneys this morning morn-ing that he had mado arrangements in his court at Salt ' Lake- to spend tho entire week In Ogden for tho hearing of th cases. Mo3t of the time of Jndgo IjCwIs this forenoon was taken up In listening listen-ing to the arguments of attorneys in relation to tho question of how the peroral cases should bo tried. Attorney At-torney Willis for tho city contended that tho landlord cases should bo j ti led separately from thoo of tho tenant;!, ten-ant;!, so as to avoid entanglements regarding valuation He stated that ' ho thought that if tho interests of the tenants were to be determined nc this time tho valuation of the property prop-erty was fixed for the ownen in fee, there might be collusion ou the part of landlord and tenant to raise the valuation of tho property. I The attorneys for the respective I tenants and sub-tenants contended ' that It would greatly expedite the. Loiirlng of the cases If nil tho inter- i tsts landlord tenant and subtenant ! in each particular case, could bo pre- I fented to one jury to award the i values to the Interested pnrtles in one 1 verdict. I ThJ court was Inclined to take the ' latter view of the question and stat- i id that ho would try to follow that rulo. Th Judgo stated, however, that if all parties concerned In any particular case were not ready for trial, that separate trials would ba given. No time could be lost, Judgo Lewis stated, in waitlDg for parties to prepare for trial at this llmo. The first case called was that of the city against Ellen J. Stevens, administratrix ad-ministratrix of the estate of W. II. Stevens, deceased, as owner in fee of tho premises eought to bo condemned, condemn-ed, Henry Wessler, tenant, and John A. Stlmson, suit-tenant, Tho trial of the- case will not be taken up until tomorrow morning, due to the fact that preparations for trial in Stirn-son's Stirn-son's interests would not be completed complet-ed until that time, owing to the illness ill-ness of Attorney J. D. McCracken. A Jury to hoar the case will be Belected during th afternoon. The only question involved in the suit now before th court Is that ot valuations on the property used In tho opening of Hudson avenue, the , question of the right of the city to open the avenue having been determined deter-mined by the court some time ago. ' The condemnation proceedings wero brought as one action, all the property prop-erty owners and other parties in interest in-terest being Jointly named as co-defendants. co-defendants. Separato trials have been asked for in a few instances and agreements have been reached between be-tween the property owners and the city in others. Tho trial that will be opened tomorrow to-morrow involves the valuation of tho i propertv formerly known as the Wal- 1 nut saloon and the Stlmson cafe, facing fac-ing Twenty fifth street. The defend- ' ants claim that the property, at the lime it was condemned, was reasonably reason-ably worth ?2r..OO0, which amount shall tie apportioned to tho parties In accordance with the showing made by the tenants. |