The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-03-14
Brady Sued Himself.


Blackfoot Gdaho) Republican: Jas H. Brady was
the defendant in 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
hokus- pokus.
The hokus- pokus devices are particularly inter
estng this week in view of the fact that nearly all
the newspapers that come to our desk from brother
EDITORS singing the praises of Mr.. Brady, the
successful promoter canal builder and developer of
the resources of the state The facts that came be-
fore the jury indicated that his development schemes
slipped cog in this DEAL and he tore down canal
enterprise to build up another We suppose of course
that this is only bad among a multitude of
good things he has done, and great men do
not mind reviewing little failures thrown in among
the ranscendenty great things we review the court
records for the benefit of readers who earn
esty seeking after righteousness
The story has to do with the Idaho Canal Com
pany, but does not go back very far thank fortune,
it would take us longer 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 about the first of
April, 1908, The Idaho Canal & Improvement Com
pany which, interpreted means James H. Brady and
his lieutenants, heretofore praised a promoter,
canal builder, ETC., leased the Taylor Goshen Canal
for period of one year for the of 1900, said
rental to be paid October 1, 1903 and the terms
of the lease required that the canal be kept in repair
and turned at the end of the lease in good
condition as it was when they received it.
This canal lay parallel to the Idaho Canal, and if
either canal needed rest, the water could be sup
piled through the other, for the farms under it. Mr.
Brady's soon bought up a controlling interest in
The Taylor & Goshen Canal and on June 10, 19O3
a board of directors elected, in which
ma jorty of Brady When it came time for the
payment of the 81, 500 rental the board of directors
being dominated by Mr.. Brady, neglected to pay the
money to the Taylor & Goshen Company, and the
minority stockholders failed to realize on an expect
ed dividend, with which they expected to pay their
water rental for the year, for they had rented water
The next year the Idaho Canal was in shape to
carry water and Brady's directors in the Taylor &
Goshen Canal decided that it needed rest and closed
unable to get any water from the canal they had
built, or to get the money per contract their
lease, yet they as individuals had to pay the water
rent for 1903 to The Idaho Canal Company for water
1sed out of their own canal
In 1904 they had to solve the problem Of whether
o rent water from The Idaho Canal Company,
hat their own canal resting They solved that
question the simple proverb, "They that SOW not
neither shall they reap and they rented water of the
)ther fellow
After the minority stockholders found it impossible
o get the directors to do anything to give them