| Show COMMON LAW OF ENGLAND EMPLOYERS LIABILITY OF PEL LOW SERVANT REFERRED TO IN COURT the case of griffin vs southern pacific company ha many fine points court notes an incident occurred in the district court late yesterday afternoon before judge henry H in the case of pauline griffin administratrix of uie estate of herbert J deceased against the southern pacific f company the matter was a demurrer in the awe which was argued submitted and taken under advisement in the corn plaint filed by the plaintiff they set up the employers liability for employed emp loyes and fellow servants as contained in abe common law of england and adopted by nevada in 1883 the of the law at ahe present time was also discussed at great length and whether the law was made prior to 1776 or not and whether it stood or not in answering the arguments set up by the counsel tor the plaintiff judge thomaa marshall of salt lake made a lengthy arv aument which contained many gems of wit he also contended that the british parliament could not legislate laws tor the united states or any of its states and a state could not adopt such laws outright in concluding he the british parliaments legislating for the united states ended in 1776 the arguments were watched with a i great deal of interest by the members I 1 ot the bar COURT NOTES A petition was presented to the court W mrs daniel van dam asking that she be permitted to take care of her husband who was committed to the in asylum recently she also put up e bond in the matter as Is required by aw and the petition was granted in the case of james briggs vs Stron gB canyon water company and ogden city the defendants motion to strike out second amended complaint was continued and the to have judgment set aside was taken under advisement the were granted three days to file a second amended complaint in the divorce case of catharine blair vs james blaar defendant was 1 ordered to pay a temporary alimony of 25 per month and 50 attorney fees abo demurrer in the case of N t tk utah paper vs T A wha receiver was continued the following motions sarah J brown vs B G knola motion to dismiss advisement james C vs sylvester jurov motion for new trial and motion to strike to move lor new trial from flies advisement samuel fletcher berge reed demurrer overruled twenty days to answer i jesse moore hunt co vs M R bear er et al motion to coats continued T B connolly TS thoa C hanley motion for leave to amend answer drafted and set tor trial july 1 brown forman co vs MR bearer rt al motion to relax and strike out costs continued E M conroy vs mrs laura reed notion to quash elocution continued one month E F bratz vs J S carman ct al demurrer advisement aco A lowe co vs van wage ben demurrer continued t timothy kendall administrator vs john T Sand lford motion for new trial order stricken fromi flies richard slater vs jeanette slater geo Q rich motion for new trial continued may 10 the mccall co vs C P jennings ct al demurrer advisement elizabeth B GUI ve B malan ef al motion tor new trial and motion to cost argued taken under advisement isaac fair vs henry C lawrence et al motion tor new trial advisement in the case of wm M bostaph ve chaa taylor et al leave was granted the defendants to withdraw motion for a new trial the were argued nd taken under advisement |
