Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-15
COURT BUSINESS VOLUM|NOUS
 IN C0CH|SE
Santa Cruz County May Be Cut Off From Second District, Leaving Cochise to Judge Doan-Supreme Court.
fsneo,s, to Roy.ew.)

Z TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Jan. 14.-The district court adjourned on Saturday evening, and in all probability will not convene again until the 1st of April, although no definite time was set. Judge Doan left last evening for Phoenix, where he goes to attend the supreme court. That body will be in session for a number of weeks. but it depends on the number of cases that are to come up just how long they will remain In session. The first few days will be devoted to a call of the calen- der, and it depends on the number of cases that the attorneys wish to pre- sent arguments in as to what time Of the court will be taken up.
 A number of important cases from lCochise county are to be taken up and disposed of, among them being the case of McGowan vs. County Treasurer Gaines, in which the former asks for $25, 900 damages for being deposed as tax attorney during last year. alleging that he was deprived of earning that amount in the collection of back taxes. When the case was tried in the district court, a demurrer was sustained to the complaint and the plaintiff agreed to stand by it. Judgment was given to the defendant Gaines and the motion for a new trial denied and the appeal then taken.
 Another case is that of Norton &
 Morgan Commercial company, of Will COX, vs. J. J. Howard, involving the question of debt to the amount of $500 alleged to be due for provisions fur nished a mining company at Dos Ca bezas, the work being done by Howard. Besides these cases there are a num- Der of others that were tried at the April term of tss district court. in which the appeal has been perfected. There are but one or two cases that were tried at the October term in which the appeals have 5een perfected, so that most of the.n will go over to the next term cs the supreme court. among them being the Hardiker-Rice contest csse that was tried last week. Jucse Doan was seen by a Review Representative on Saturday, and asked ! If the supreme court would take any
 action in regard to placing Cochise
 county in & district by itself. on ae'
 count of the volume of business sAat
 is piling up. He replied that some faction would be taken in the 4hatteI
 whereby he could devote his entire
 time to the business Of Cochise county
 The matter of fixfng the time Of holding courts in the various counties of the territory, and the apportionine of the counties to the various districts
 as well as assigning the judges tc
 them, was taken away from the legis
 lature of Arizona and given to the su , preme court at the time that the fiftf
 district was apportioned and Judge
 Nave appointed to make the iftl member of the supreme court. l Santa Cruz county Is enot cut off iron Cochise into another district, 1t vii be arranged so that one of the othe , judges will be able to go down ant hold court there fortwo weeks in Apri and October, so that Judge Doan cal ? devote that tineo !tor aftepding7 to tn ] business of oGoehfse county. Tn ? trouble of cuttingsoff Santa Cruz cour I ty and attaching 1t to any nf the ofhn
 southern districts is that it will mate l. ally Increase he work of the judge . whom 1t might be assigned, and eac l. of them has about all he can attend tt Q Nulle JuuBe SIOdn udS lue u1OsI icl l. ure time of any of them. Judg l. Campbell. if given the Santa Cru
 county work, in addition to the Pin
 and Yuma county courts, could not a
 tend to the work. h all probabilit
 Santa Cruz county will be left in tt i. second judicial district under II
 assignment to Judge Doan, and eith,
 Judge Kent or Judge Sloan will a
 range to go to Nogaies and hold u c court.
 4, The volume of business that hi = been transacted in Cochise coun h. during the past year will exceed th IT done in two or three other counties a. the territory put together. There a of now on the court calendar nearly 3 D. cases to be disposed of. and they a IS being filed at the rate of nearly ca IS per day, so that by the time the ne n term of court opens there will be clo
 to 400 cases. There is a possibili e. that the time of holding the Ap IT. term will be set for the first Mond ln in April. instead of the fourth. so th g. the bulk of the work can be dispos 1e of before the hot weather of June a T.iIV hoocy,aec