The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-20
BENCH And BAR
An Interesting Melange of Gen.
eral Legal Gossip.
MORE MINING LITIGATION
Manager Stewart, Of the franklin Avenue
Theatre, viii Sue the City for Dam
ages Personal Notes.

Judge Loofbourow is again hard at work
opon his report as to the purpose to which
the escheated church fund shall be ap-
piled. He will complete the report this
week and file it with the clerk of the su-
preme court in time for the judges to re-
view it before the January session of the
supreme court.
Judge Anderson is booked here until
next March, when he will hold court in his
own district at Beaver. In the meantime
he will render Judge Zane valuable assist
ance in disposing of the immense
volume of business in the Third
district. The trial of the big mining suit
of the Old Jordan VS.. the Major will be
resumed before him tomorrow morning.
1t IS not expected that it will be concluded
until Christmas. This is one of the biggest
suits of the kind ever tried in this district,
involving as it does mining property valued
at s, 900. II is the old question of apex.
Manager Stewart of the variety theatre,
will follow up his proceedings TO review
the action of the Council in reyoking his
liquor license by an action for damages,
and it seems to oe the general opinion
among the lawy ers that he has the City on
the hip. Colonel Merritt and many others
duly paid for, and which Is TO run for a
definite period, is property, and can only
be taken from the owner by due process of
law. THE council would have no power
to revoke a license said Colonel Merritt,
Except on statutory power given them
So far as can discover, they have no such
power" Others think the license might
have been revoked, but only by due pro-
cess of law" which would certainly give a
man the right to be heard.
The committee appointed to revise the
city charter waited upon Colonel Merritt
last week and solicited his services in the
the work or revision, but for reasons of
his own the colonel declined the offer.
The suggestion of The HERALD to the eff
feet that the bar association be reiuve-
mated meets with enthusiastic endorse
ment from the younger members of the
legal fraternity.
The criminal calendar of the Third dis
trict court will be unusually heavy next
term.
There were more ''ailing' attorneys at
tending court during the past week than for
10, these many moons. La grippe is get
ting in its deadly work in the fraternity.
There is general complaint among the
legal lights. They say that the big mining
suits, such as the Northland- Mayflower
controversy, should be heard before a
referee and not by the court, as too much
valuable time is unnecessarily wasted.
The docket is away behind now and mining
suits of such vast Importance tend to send
il further back into the retrospective.
Prof. w. S. Keye, of California, is one
of the witnesses VINO will testify in the
Old ordan-Niagra suit before Judge Al
derson this week. The professor is con-
sidered one of the finest minerologists in
the United States.
Assistant United States Attorney Step
hens was in Ogden yesterday on business.
The demurrer in the case of z. II. Par
sons VS.. the Tribune. which was argued on
Friday, will be passed upon by Judge An
derson tomorrow.
Attorney LeGrande Young is under the
weather. He has several cases in court
which are being held back until he is able
to attend to them.
Judge Powers has neglected his business
since General Connor's death In making the
arrangements for the old warriors funeral