Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-12-20
INJUNCTION ISSUED AGAINST
 THE RECORDER.
(From Fridays Daily)

restraining County Recorder Moshel
 from interfering with Ziba O. Browr
 in obtaining access to the records O.
 that office, are serious charge.
 against that official MT. Brown ha.
 long standing grievance, and tn,
 friction between him and Moshel
 reached climax on Wednesday after
 noon when the latter refused to giv,
 Brown the documents that had been
 filled that day. As a result, Brown consulted his attorneys, R. E. Morrison and E. s. Clark, and an injunction was secured without any time limit.
 Mosher's version of the difficulty differs from that of Brown s, but the fact remains that the two men have not been on friendly terms for many moons.
 Ziba O. Brown is the head of the Prescott Title company, and each day he makes an abstract of the con. tents of all documents filed, and sup plies a copy to the lawyers, merchants and other persons who require to De posted daily with the information con tained in the instruments that have been placed on record. According to Attorney Morrison, the Recorder has acted in disagreeable manner to- wards Brown ever since he assumed the duties of the office. On one occasion. it is alleged, he became violent, and was on the point of assaulting the ab- stracter, when Mrs. Mosher interfered and influenced him to desist. In rder for Brown to prepare complete ab- stract of the documents, it is necessary that he should remain there until 5 o 'clock, when the office closes. It is charged that recently when the clock was about ready to strike the hour of closing time, that Mosher came to Brown and demanded the surrender of the documents, which he was copying claiming that it was o'clock. Brown had not completed his work, and pointed out that it was yet 30 seconds of o'clock Mosher, it is claimed, became enraged and abused the ab- On Wednesday afternoon he refused to allow him to have possession of the papers. Hence the legal pro- ceedings
 Mosher, in relating his version Of the trouble yesterday, claims that OF last Monday Brown came into the office, took the papers from the wire basket where they are placed after being filed, and taking the bunch over to a counter on the west side of the room, proceeded to copy them, as was his custom. Later on, Brown con- plained that one of the instruments was missing, as its filing appeared OF record on one of the office books. Mosher says that the entire office force then commenced a search for it, ana it was not until late in the day that it was found by Mrs. Mosher under one of the books from which Brown had been copying. Mosher points out that the incident made him reflect as to the serious results that might befal him and his bondsmen should one of the papers become lost, and he reached the conclusion that he would not allow any outsider to handle the papers in the fu- ture without adequate safeguards.
 Mosher admits that a document may be inspected by the public as soon as the stamp of his office shows that it is of record, but he contends that the law does not permit person to copy the instrument until after it has been copied on his books. This sometimes requires several days, according to the business of the office, but it is essential to Browns abstract business that he should be able to copy them the day they are filed. What the law really contemplates, the court will be calle'! upon to decide when the case is heard.
 Browns friends say that Mosher has been frequently shown signs of an enmity toward him, and they attribute it to the fact that several years ago he put in a bid for doing the work of the recorders office at a figure that was less than such work was costing the county. Brown was afterwards on a committee of the grand jury when it inspected the office, then held by P. T. Farley. A report was submitted and adopted by the grand jury charging that there was an excessive number of deputies in the office for the work that was performed, and the report also
 made certain recommendations with
 reference to turning over all fees for