The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-20

Inc 11SnI OF Virtue Oh Appeals Int
Herald has not taken issue with the
Iverdict rendered in this case without
inquiring into the facts and sitting
the evidence. And It has been forced
Ito the conviction, from that inquiry,
that the verdict was not only unjust
lin itself but contrary to the evidence
presented.
The rights of the people of Utah
lcounty are just as sacred in the sight
of The Herald as are those of the peo-
pie of Salt Lake county. But these
do not include the right of the former
to bleed the latter. nor the justice OF
compelling a Salt Lake corporation or
person to pay as damages, to a tract
of land, an amount ten times as much
as the entire value of that land.
The gentlemars with whom The
Herald tall1ed' is named in the inter
view published in The Herald He is
only one of the sources of this papers
information. If the Dispatch desires to
know the facts, let it institute as close
| inquiries as We have CONCERNING the
actual value of the land said to have
been damaged by overflow. Also let
unbiased investigation be had as to the
compliance of the Salt Lake county
canal companies with the arbitration
agreement and settlement, and it will
be found that it has been rigidly ad-
hered to.
There alis circumstances connected
with this matter known to old settlers,
with which the Dispatch may not yet
be familiar The manner in which
title was acquired TO the lands close
down TO the lake, and which covers
ground now and always naturally sub
merged, would throw some light on
this question. The case is not
yet concluded The whole matter
will probably have now to come out
The Herald. as the Dispatch will see
from both of the editorial utterances
we have made on this question, was
simply DESTROYS of seeing the dispute
settled amicably without the bitterness
and cost of continued litigation But
Iif it has to be prolonged the whole
subject will have to be resurrected and
its buried bones brought out to the
light of day.
The Herald has given no cause to
the Dispatch to intimate that we hold
it right for Salt Lake county to infict
any evil on the dwellers by the lake
or anyone else. And the Dispatch
wanders from the subject of the right
fulness of the verdict, when it speaks
of the sickness and other evils caused
by the effects of the receding waters.
1t has yet to be shown that anything
the canal companies have done in ex-
cess Of their legal rights has caused
that overflow or recession. But that is
not the point now in dispute 1t is the
rightfulness of a verdict of $3.50 to
reimburse one individual for damages
to land not worth more than a tenth
of that amount Let the Dispatch
find out the real value of the land be-
fore it attempts further to justify the
verdict
AS to the status of the contesting
parties: 1t did cut considerable figure
in the arguments made to the jury.
How much effect it had in procuring
the verdict, even the Dispatch would
find it difficult to find out. But the
poor men who chiefly compose the
canal companies in this county, were
pictured as rich corporations preying
upon the poor settlers in Utah county.
1t was that to which The Herald re-
ferred and to our remarks the Dis
patch now takes unnecessary excep-
ton, and we can return the compli-
ment paid us by saying that "the
special pleading of the Dispatch reflects
no credit upon its legal or its equitable
energies
If The Heralds pacific suggestions
ai0 ilOt lcIeiFcu III lHe spirit III when
they were rendered the misfortune will
not be ours. It is right for the Dis
patch to stand up for the rights of the
people in its vicinity, but it will be
found in the long run that justice and
right even to people at a distance" will
win and bring the greatest satisfac-
ton and the most enduring reward