Show I 1 i 11 DISTRICT COURT f chase jones et al damage suit before judge miner mine r THREE OF tug THE defel BAITS the question orion suit raised an la late interest r 1 ini ing case cue sues for ollice business mearly nearly all of the time in the first district dist riot court before judge miner yesterday was taken up with the damage d a bait it of E II 11 chase vs ve R 11 II jones 11 L r ensign no I 1 as 0 0 loveland oveland Ii and daniel danle i quintan a in a I 1 in n which the plaintiff plaintiff sues tor for za 0 4 damages F or alleged I 1 begs I 1 ma malicious I 1 CIO 8 prote prosecution cution the case is is one ot of interest and the co court neta t room roona was nearly filled with wi t h spectators pe tore among whom were several sever a I 1 ladies lad ies the jury jur y had been em e in r paneled a meled tho the night beloro before and upon the opening of court the attorneys were all ready to proceed L R cotra rogers appeared for the plaintiff and art arthur t ur brown for the defendants A large number of witnesses were e examined ami ne d and more are still to on come me the rhe story of the case aa as gleaned from the witnesses ie is as follows E it chase is an elderly man and resides at corrine where be has his held the position aa as postmaster and city attorney several years ago he took a little girl named lillie davidson who up till that time bad lived with her mother at brigham city to stay at his house his bister sister then acted as housekeeper after the advent of miss bliss davidson upon the scene she went east the old gentleman and the girl liverio gether for years and chase educated and adopted the latter as his daughter matters thus ran on until lillie bad had reached the age of womanhood when rumors began to be heard among the neighbors that all was not right with the two As time P passed as the remarks became more w widespread ide until they reached the ears oars of the girls mother who according to the statement of it 11 II jones several times endeavored to get her daughter home again but each time ailed failed and upon her visits to the chase house the lady saw displays which were other than moral driven desperate at last she on october ath 1889 waited upon mr jones who was at that timo time prosecuting attorney of box elder count county and upon her complaint a warrant charging y arg chase with fornication was sworn out a and d placed in the hands of sheriff affo 0 0 loveland to be served the sheriff did his duty and the old man was arraigned before justice of the peace bl L ensign and bound over 0 ver to await the action of the grand jury the justice was rather dilatory in sending lending dp up the tile papers pers toabe to the higher court and inthea in the affidavit pada of chase himself an order was issued commanding mr ensign to send up the testimony the papers readied reached this court on december 31 and on may 6 the tle grand jury ignored the case chase at onca once brought suit E against the defendants named for malicious m giving as his grounds t me t e fact anat the charge had been disproved and that the parties interested were all his enemies and unfriendly toward him when the girl in the case was put pat upon the stand yesterday everybody was excused from t the he room she denied ever having bad had any improper relations with the plaintiff and chases testimony was to the same effect after the testimony for the plaintiff was all in attorney brown moved for a noa non snit la in the cases of it L ensign and daniel quinlan which was granted lie ile then moved for the discharge ar go of II 11 11 II jones on the same game ground that he had teen wen in the discharge of his duty mr rogers objected tele dand and raised the point that jones baing 1 I g but a territorial county cou nty prosecutor he be could not meddle in gabe united states cases that should be left to district attorney besides jones unfriendly to plaintiff and did make sufficient investigation 0 objection lection 1 was overruled the e deinse refused d to release loveland as he had bad at the time of the arrest stated chase according to the latter be he did not think him guilty trial was continued until late 1 court then adjourned until to tom m 0 arow at the following additional was transacted the casa case of 11 II II 11 curtis vs hot springs railway company on motion of B E M mi allison for the term case s ogden oily city railway company an ard order er for or judgment in the amount of for the plaintiff was entered win in readmission of allbert boreman to practice lav law ransford Kans ford smith david evana evans and 31 V gilbert were appointed a committee to examine applicant in the case of J A taylor et al vs 31 B buford at al an order was entered on motion of evans rogers granting defendant tw twenty eat y days additional time to f file ile eta statement bement on da motion tor for a new trial and in meantime execution is stayed in the case of J M I 1 apton vs afy ram thatcher defendant was granted ten days additional time in will winch ch to an ru aver ewer on motion of millera maginnis the demurrer la to the complaint having baving been overruled by order of the supreme court |