The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-05-26
DISTRICT COURT CONVENES
IN BLACKFOOT NEXT MONDAY

The district court will convene
next Monday and the docket Is small.
The jail lacks one of being empty
and there are only three or four GRIM
inal cases and comparatively few
civil cases to be tried. There is quite
list of old cases that are still on
docket but being continued for the
term for many terms past. There
Is the case of the state against w
L. West, charging him with shooting
to kill, when Fernan Fackrell was
wounded over year ago; the state
against Bolander on charge Of forg-
cry; and the state against ]. G. Clay,
charging him with reckless driving.
This case comes UP on appeal from
the probate court where Clay lost.
A. G.. Fitch, Of Shelley, is to have
a hearing Wednesday in the probate
court charged with tearing out a
bridge belonging to DR.. Roberts, the
bridge being built by DR.. Roberts in
his own field to enable him to cross
Fitch's ditch. Fitch refuses to allow
the doctor bridge at all, so the
story goes.
The civil cases in the district court
are as follows:
The Blackfoot Fruit & Potato
Growers association VS.. II. M. Adam
son.
r. A. Boice VS.. L. M. Caps.
w. A. Beakley VS.. The Blackfoot
Optimist.
Cornelius Creane VS.. The Idaho
Republican.
R. w. Chalmers VS.. Karl Hunzek-
er.
w. c. Cannon VS.. The Trego Ditch
company.
W. G. King and L. w. Van Akin
VS., The Riverside Ditch company.
Clarke Bros. VS.. d. r. Jones.
Clarke Bros. VS., The Blackfoot
Athletic association.
Roy Coffman VS. L., Johnson.
Colborn VS.. B. H. Alfred.
Shelley Bank VS.. ]. B. Sage.
J. M. Stevens VS.. The Evening
Courier.
Abraham Scott VS.. G. F. Hilliard,
administrator.
ri Valley Supply company VS.. M. s.
King.
David Wheeler VS.. The Oregon
Short Line.
| Woodland vs. Hodson.
Wrought Iron Range company VS..
H. C. G. Rich.
The following cases have been
filed:
Wallace R. Perrell VS.. Anna V.
Johnson.
Andrew Larson VS.. J. M. Wright
Carl Nelson VS.. William Jolley.
]. G. Millick VS.. Thomas E. Good
and wife and R. ]. Dygert.
| w. B. Irwin VS.. Bond Bros.
L. w. West VS.. H. J. Robinson.
c. M. England vs. Toney Nelson.
P. w. Madsen VS.. T. H. Lynch.
w. F. Porter VS.. ]. l. Walters.
Marcus Blenkle VS.. The Oregon
Short Line.
Mrs. S. G. Perkins VS.. Laura B.
Heaton.
Neil Anderson has appealed from
the order of the county commission
ers regarding the consolidation of
school districts numbers IL and 48.
The case of Cannon VS.. The Trego
Ditch company with A. S. Dickinson
representing the plaintiff is for dam
ages for $2,700 alleged to have been
sustained by the plaintiff last summer
when the ditch company gave their
water to the American Falls and Peo-
Piles canals to relieve the settlers who
had no water and were losing their
crops. Plaintiff alleges that he rails
ed poor crop and asks that the
canal company be required to pay
him for the shortage.
The case of King and Van Akin
against the Riverside Ditch company
for $6487.17 is also a damage case
growing out of the shortage of water
and giving it to settlers to save them.
c. s. Beebe and J. M. Stevens are
the attorneys who brought the suit.
The case Of w. L. West against
H. j. Robinson is to have deed set
aside. West was in Jail charged with
a crime and he employed Robinson to
defend him, giving him on the spot,
a deed to large tract of land lying
along the Mackay tracks northwest
of Moreland. West afterwards set
up the claim that Robinson did not
look after his business for him &C
cording to the agreement made in
Jail, and asks to have the deed set
aside for that reason and leaves 1t
to the court to fix the amount Of
the fees due Robinson for what was
actually done by him.
The two suits against the Black
foot newspapers were brought for
damages alleged to have been done
by the publication Of news matter.
A trial jury has been summoned
to appear on Monday the fifth of
June.