The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-22
FOR A SPEEDY HEARING
OF THE CASE ON IT'S MERITS
IN COURT OF APPEALS.
BY WHOSE DECISION THEY WILL ABIDE
Reseying Only the Privilege to Garry the
Case Up 10 the United States Supreme
Court on a Writ of Error if
Such is Desired.

Louisville, Ky. Feb. 2l.-The con
tests over the State offices are very
much simplified by an agreement en-
tered into today between the Attorneys
for the Republicans and the Democrats
representing both sides. and straighten
ing out the legal tangle over the multi
plicity of injunction suits for the title
for the governorSilip.
The agreement is that there shall be
Il speedy trial in the courts on an agreed
hearing to be before Judge Emmett
as follows:
There are now pending in the Jeffer
son Circuit Court two suits entitled
respectively w. S. Taylor vs.. ]. c. w.
Reckham. ct al. and John Marshall vs..
J. c. w Reckham. ct a.. and another
suit IN the name of J. G. w Beckhap
VS.. w. S. Taylor AMI John Marshall,
is to he filed in said court Process has
been served in the first named two suits
and the defendants agreed at once te
enter their appearance in the last named
suit All Of said suits are TO be placed
upon the ordinary docket and tried 10y
the court on the law and facts.
One answer and the subsequent plead
inls in the two first named suits may he
f. and applied to both cases and they
afe to ho consolidated. the same evidence
shall he heard in all the cases. the three
cases being tried and heard together. The
pleadinGs shall he made up by Tuesday,
February 9th. 1900, or sooner if it can
he done
The evidence shall he by dispositions or
record unless otherwise agr ed upon and
Shall be taken soon as possible. say with
in ten days from the time the pleadngs
are closed.
In the preparations of the said c3ses
in the Circuit Court. all parties agree
in good faith to do all they can to speed
the final determination oi the cases cn
their merits and it is hereby agreed THAI.
should any party desire to introduce IN
evidence the proceedings of the contest
boards or Of the General Assembly such
party may use. as evidence copies Of the
trans cript of such proceedings and evil
dence furnished to counsel by .klonzc
Walker the official StenOgraphcr for
said contest boards. the necessity for
having such transcripts atteSted or GER
tilted being hereby waived, but nothing
herein shall be construed to, waive any
objection to the relevancy CT competency
of any and all evidence introduced or
offered on the trial of the said cases.
When the said cause shall have been
finally determined in the court Of appeals
it is hereby agreed that all parties here
to will unite III ~ request to the said
court to docket said cases Immediately
and advance them for hearing at the
earliest day upon which the court can
hear them.
It is further agreed that on such
appeal the original evidence used in the
Circuit Court. if voluminOus. can be
taken to the Court of Appeals as part o.
the record on the appeal without being
copied, thereby saving time and cost.
Should any PARTY, after the final de-
termination of the causes by the Court
of Appeals desire Il writ OF error to the
Supreme Court of the United States 10
review such determination, Il is agreed
that such writ shall be Immediately APP
piled for and diligently prosecuted, if Sc
cured. and that all parties to said causes
will unite in an application to said Fed
eral Court to docket and advance said
causes and to give them the earliest
hearing and determination possible.
The said cauSese shall be tried in
the Jefferson Circuit Court by Judge
Emmett Field. before whom one of the
said causes is now pending.
1t is further agreed by the parties ~
the said suits that they will submit and
abide by all the orders ana judgments
1
ing. however. the legal right to stay pro-
ceedings On such orders CT judgments in
any manner provided by law
(Signe0
W. S. TAYLOR.