The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-07
STEVENS ABILITY AS SHOWN BY THE RECORD
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and granting all the necessary expenses which incidental
the plan by which carried out the total expense OF the
case aside from attorneys fees should not have exceeded
and would nave been possible onne to $4,000 by IN
duy and economy management such characterized
the work of Judge W. Standrod when he was on the bench
Under the management actually DONE the cost reached
the enormous of $4,000 and shall show that this was
only part of the sacrifice which the gants had to bear
sequence of the waanted delay bringing the case to compile
ton.
Judge Stevens sat for ftyfve days on the case all
told and then decided that might be better to appoint special
Judge or referee take the testimony the that
could continuously completion without the interruptions
incident his holding regular terms OF court IN the tour counties
This was finally agreed and Attorney F. J. Cowen of Salmon
was appointed referee being understood among the ganS
that there would be expense for the salary for the ser
of the referee The gans entitled to have the regular
Judge serve public expense he does all other but
it was represented them that the saving of time to be made by
employing referee would be important item and they APP
proved of this being taxed to them to avoid delay
Mr. Cowen came from Salmon and began hearing tes
tmony on the 10th of November 1906 and the work
peted and approved by Judge M Stevens the 10th OF De
cembe having been the hands OF the referee for hive
years and Fl days.
The taking of testimony at Blackfoo in the fall and winter
of 1906 was pushed completion the lgans this part of
the county being represented by g. F. Hansbroug w. jones'
S. J. Rich, Standrod and Terrell and Others and all that could
be done by attorneys finished that time except the na
reviewing of the work check up their respective rights and
see that omitted their dates their rights
in any way abridged All the of the work depended upon
the referee and the senogphe and attorneys and clients could
only wait and ask for results from time time and still await
their action This became of irritation to the lawyers
for several Their clients kept asking about the decree
and complaining about their losses from having opera
tion the attorneys would them that in the hands
of the referee and they just anxious get completed
as the clients The attorney received only part of the pay
for their work the done and the rest was to be
paid when the decree fled and this account the attorneys
moved by financial interest have finished as soon as
possible and they urged the matter the consideration OF the
referee much practitioners upon the court
Complaints of clients finally became nssten that OF the
attorneys got they would reply by asking the client to go and
talk Judge Stevens Referee Cown he the lawyer had
done all he could and bad pressed the upon them much
as he felt he could afford In 1908 The Idaho Republican
took up and gave such publicity to it seemed
for newspaper press upon the court and the work which had
apparently lain for years again taken by
the referee as will be shown by the history of the taken from
the records.
WATER DURING DROUTH
During the time the pending the rights of the lit
giants had not been defined and the great of territory