, 1897-09-28
FAMOUS C0LORADOCASG.
IN WHICH HON. ORA HALEY OF
THIS CITY is INTER-
ESTED.
1t Was First Started in 1884, When Mr..
Haley Considered His Tax in Routt
County Exorbitans and Refused to
Pay-Five Times the Cattle Were
Rounded Up, Only to be Released.

Rounded Up. Only to be Released.
An interesting suit is being tried in
Denver today in which a Laramie man
Is interested. The suit was first brought
in 1884 by the commissioners OF Routt
county, Colo, against Hon. Ora Haley
Of this city. The Denver Evening Post
gives the following account CT the case:
The famous case Of the struggle be-
tween the county commissioners OF 1884
Of Rcutt county and a wealthy stock
man. Ora Haley Of Laramie, Wyo., is
on the docket OF the Arapahoe county
district court for tomorrow. At the
Windsor hotel are witnesses and prin-
cipals. some OF whom have been sum-
ed determination Of fighting to a con-
clusion the long drawn-out litigation OF
10 years standing.
Ora Haley, the complainant. sues the
ex-rre. asurer OF Routt county and the
ex-commissioners for damages aggre-
gazing s6O, 200. There is gray in the hair
and m~ous;aches OF some since the suit
was first brought. But we're to see
1t to the end now" said Thomas H.
les, formerly chairman OF the board OF
county commissioners, this morning.
AT the Windsor are registered Lewis
H. Breeze. e~X-county treasurer. Steam
boat Springs; W. b. McClelland. ex-
commissioner, Steamboat Springs;Thom-
as H. lies. eX-chairman OF the board O.
county commissioners, Meeker; Thomas
Morgan and B. F. Morgan, AxiaA, Colo.
John NJ. Breeze, Salt Lake City.
The original suit vas begun in 1884.
Ora Haley is a wealthy ranchman whose
broad acres and thousands Of head OF
cattle were valued at $3.50. 900. 1t is al
legged Haley refused to pay taxes due
,le county to the extent Of $4.259. The
board held frequent meetings with
Lewis Breeze, the county In.
dividual and collective efforts had been
made 10 induce Haley to settle the item
in the assessment roll. lies was a par
ticularly warm friend Of Haley, but ev,
cry interview with the obdurate stock
man terminated disastrously.
After two years Of wrangling, lies. as
chairman, addressed Haley officially and
received an answer that the assessment
was exorbitant and that he would not
pay it. The commissioners brought a
suit which from the justice courts OF
Routt county was carried to The highest
tribunal OF The lands. In 1883 the COM
in addition to the tax OF $4.259, the sum
Of 312, 700 additional expense, incurred
in rounding up the Haley cattle for the
advertised sales. The cattle were round
ed up five times by the treasurer, pur-
srant to an advertised sale, when Haley
would appear on the scene with an in
junction from some county court. The
first injunction was dissolved by an ap-
peal to the state supreme court. A Sec
Ond time the sale was advertised and
the cattle rounded up, but Judge Ruck>
er, then sitting in Pitkin county, had
opportunity granted Haley an injunc-
ton.
A third time he sale was advertised,
but Judge Carpenter OF Clear Greek
county, at Golden, granted an official
VIII; with power to stop the commission
ers. The injunctions were all dissolved
after months Of litigation and a fourth
attempt was made TO sell the cattle to
satisfy the taxes. when Judge Decker of
Arapahoe county was appealed to and
Haley appeared triumphant upon the
scene. When the comm .ssioners ap-
peared before Judge Decker it is aver
red, that he scored Haley and Upheld the
commissioners. ruling that they could
sell the stock.
However, Haley secured another re-
straining order. But the ire OF the CON-
m~issioners was up and they decided to
go ahead court or no court. Haley Sc
cured three days time before the sale
was made and gave his personal certl-
fed check for the amount, after being
refused a compromise he had suggested.
Haley Immediately brought suit to re-
cover, in 1890, the amoun Judge Hal
lett in the United States circuit court,
on a technically. arising from the fact
that the dollar sign was left out ON the
assessment rolls of 1884, gave him judg-
ment for IS, 900. The commissioners ap>
pealed the cas- to the United States
court where the judgment OF Judge Hal
lei; was finally reversed. In the mean
time lies had ordered the clerk to put
in the dollar Sign in the original assess,
ment roll wherever lacking.
On that incident the present suit, al
leging forgery Of public records and in.
dividual damage suits are brought.
BROKE HIS NECK.
r RropoOoton ord wtho ~ Cronkoo