Show 6 rry DET DEBT an interesting case came up before I 1 judge llende raon in chambers yesterday evening it was that of the V thatcher brothers backing bau king company 1 of logan vs the city in ninth which it does 9 buiners bui and the foundation of the action A as a as we understand it briefly this when ban the officers of the government go eminent were ere insall installed ed 11 they naturally nata rally began an overhaul iok jug of the cites straits deal t and otherwise other wie and dieci vered among other things that the power of the coi pora tiou to incur I 1 hid been considerably transept ded I 1 the attorney acting with ith the mayar and finance committee determined I 1 the amount of this adion and I 1 I 1 teeing ac ing upon the advice of the first I 1 1 named officer the tile council repudiated all claims in excess of what I 1 V they were arvied was lie the legal limit the bank named was and is the tile I 1 holder of moot most it not all of the dishonored obligations and recently i begin suit here to compel the city of logan to pay them therom the complaint get up tip the facts herein briefly set out 1 he tile answer of the defendant being a justification of I 1 1 a portion by reason of the limitation prescribed it is is not eo go grievous a itu alion as it would be were it not for the 4 I 1 fact that tie present municipal I 1 government of logan is not only willing but able to kiy the sums claimed but it wanta wants to proceed upon s proper ground it cannot I 1 alford and does not propose to have bare it go on record that any of its acts cannot stand thee the cl meet scrutiny of law or a any ny other agency a i 3 that it occupies the peculiar position of being a party to a suit which it is willing to lose low provided the safeguards of the law shall surround it lu in the proceeding I 1 ce another noticeable feature of the proceeding is the fact that no suspicion or suggestion of corruption or jcoery of any kind appears in it from first to last the I 1 present council were compelled of course to report upon what they found to their constituents but in doi 1 ing EO they charged no rong arong do ing certainly no moral turpitude C upon their predecessors ahey they simply charged it up to an oversight and immediately began to devise ways I 1 and means v hereby all parties could obtain their rights and no one be made to suffer without cause the Z resolution of repudiation seems to have been a fortuitous plan for it not I 1 only placed the new government upon I 1 ir a solid footing but paved the way for I 1 0 the suit now rending and wh which ich will ail not only determine whether or not the city acted properly po perly but will if it the city bo be sustained another and different course I 1 to pursue whereby the discrepancies may be made to disappear I 1 I 1 I 1 thecae will be thoroughly considered V by judge ll enderson and we hive have no reason to doubt that bis big I 1 judgment will give entire satisfaction I 1 oar our northern neighbor is is an important and growing portion of the territory 1 and all obstacles to her continued I 1 progress will be overcome in in good time |