The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-02-28
BRADY LOSES
A SUIT HERE
His "Freeze-Out" Methods Exposed
in Court.-Jury Hands Him
Lemon.
FARMERS WERE UNABLE
TO GET WATER.
Had to Pay Water Rent and For
Water Used Out of Their
Own Canal.

Jas. H. Brady was the defendant
in a peculiar suit that was settled by
the verdict of the jury here Monday
evening after taking up the time of
the court for several days. Through
Jas. Just and others, Mr. Brady was
forced into the position of having
himself sue himself, and the verdict
authorizes the court to command Mr..
Brady to take from himself and pay
unto himself, that which he took
from himself by devices that were
hokus-pokus.
The hokus-pokus devices are par
ticularly interesting this week in
view of the fact that nearly all the
newspapers that come to our desk
from brother editors, are singing the
praises of Mr. Brady, the successful
promoter, canal builder and develop
er of the resources of the state. The
facts that came before the jury in
dicated that his development schemes
slipped a cog in this deal, and he
tore down one canal enterprise to
build up another We suppose of
course that this is only one bad case
among a multitude of good things
he has done, and as great men do
not mind reviewing little failures
thrown In among the transcendently
great things, we review the court rec
ords for the benefit of our readers
who are earnestly seeking after
Righteousness
The story has to do with the Idaho
Canal Company, but does not go
back very far thank fortune, or 1t
would take us Tonga to tell of the
hokus-pokus features mixed up with
its history.
The complaint filed in the case
runs along In the usual lingo, and
says that on or about the first OF
April. 1908. The Idaho Canal & I'm
provement Company. which. inter-
preted, means Jas. H. Brady and his
lieutenants, heretofore praised as a
promoter, canal builder, etc, leased
the Tavlor & Goshen Canal for a
reriod of one year for the sum OF
$15O0.O0, said rental TO be paid on
October lst, 1903, and the terms OF
the lease required that the canal be
kept in repair and turned over at
the end of the lease in as good con-
dition as 1t was when they received
1t.
This canal lay parallel 70 the Idaho
Canal, and II either canal needed
rest, the water could be supplied
through the other, for the farms und-
er It, Mr.. Brady's men soon bought
IN a controlling interest in The Tavl-
or & Goshen Canal, and on June 10,
1903, a new board Of directors was
elected, in which was majority OF
Brady men. When II came time for
tie payment of the $1500.00 rental.
the board of directors being domi-
rated by Mr. Brady. neglected to nay
the morev TO the Taylor e Goshen
COMPANY. and the minority stock
holders failed TO realize on an eX-
pe"ted dividend. with which they ey-
pected to nay their water rental for
the year, for they had rented water
of the other company after leasing
the canal to them.
The next year the Idaho Canal was
in shane to carry water, and Brady's
directors in the Taylor & Goshen
Canal decided that IT needed rest
and closed the headgates for the sea-
son. This left the farmers unable to
get any water from the canal they
had built, or to get the money as
per contract on their lease, vet they
as individuals bad TO paw the water
rent for 1903 20 The Idaho Canal
Company for water used out OF their
own ranal.
In 1904 they had to solve the prob
lem OF whether to rent water from
The Idaho Canal Company. now that
their own canal was resting. They
solved that question on the simple
Droverb, They that SOW not, neither
shall they reap" and they rented
water of the other fellow.
After the minority stockholders
fOund n impossible to get the direct