The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-11
ANOTHER COURT NEEDED
important Suits That Are Apt to
Remain Forever Unsettled Un-
less an Additional Court
Is Provided.

BY the Standards Special Wire.
Butte, June 1O.-"Whether or not II Is
a judgment Of God, as the Burlington wo-
man Thinks" remarked n prominent law
yer to-day. there Ii one thing certain, we
lawyers are practically starving and there
seems no chance of relief. What Silver
Bow county must have is two courts. No
progress is being made toward the trying
of civil cases. Those lawyers whose prac-
tice In chiefly in the criminal line are do
ing well. But those of us who confine
our practice principally to civil cases have
nothing to do and the chances are hat
we will have nothing to do for years, or at
least until the legislature provides us an
extra court and Judge. There are enough
criminal cases i'm which indictments have
been found to occupy the court the
balance of the present month. Dur
ing August this court will take "a
vacation. Hence IL is not likely hat
there will be another grand jury before
September 1. BY that time there will be
more criminal cases to be examined nj
were before the last grand jury. So the
civil cases will be farther of han ever.
at may be that a few civil eases will be
tried during the month of July. There
are certainly some that are most impor-
tant: Ii would IA great public benefit IL
tut Dltlt Din tttNt, " eAatIiillts 'otilh bt
tried during July. That case will proba-
bly, ccupy an entire month.
"This situation is not Ia consequence
solely of the political muddle. Ii would
have been nearly as bad in any event. II
is a fact that during the past three years
only II contested civil cases have been
tried. There have been civil cases
settled and disposed of, but only
a bare dozen tried. Under these circnm-
stances many causes are never put into
the form of a suit, although there is good
cause for action. Thus the lawyers suf-
fer"
.'Is there any prospect of relief by the
There would be a good prospect il
there was a Legislature. Not being one
there is no telling when there will he re-
lief. The need for another cour was so
urgent, that at the constitutional conven-
ton | proposed the provision of two
courts for Silver Bow county. but II was
the opinion of the convention that the
legislature could provide for an extra
| court whenever il should be necessary.
The unforeseen difficulty has made this
relief now improbable N unless the
two Legislators "A in some way agree on
necessary. legislation we must get along
with criminal cases and let the more i'm
portant civil cases CO.,
County Attorney Baldwin was asked
his opinion as to the necessity for an
other court.
"The need is certainly urgent" said
Mr.. Baldwin. ''This prolonged delay in
| the trial of civil cases mounts virtually
to a denial of justice. We are proceeding
as fast as possible, and l think we will
catch up in the criminal cases early in
the fall. But certainly IL would be a
great relief il two courts could be al
work aud civil cases disposed Of"
els there any prospect of the Blue Bird
case being tried during July?
THAT case can only be tried now by
universal consent. There are innumer
able cases ahead OF il on the civil calen.
dar, SO that il we try civil cases in July
there will be many cases ahead OF the
Blue Bird which must be tried unless
their rights are all waived. II is, OF
course, of vital importance that that cast
he disposed of, but there is little prospect
of il. l do not know yet whether a CRANE
jury. will he called before September al
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