The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-12-15
DISTRICT COURT AD
ADJOURNED FRIDAY
Jury Term That Has Tried Three In
significant Cases in Three Weeks,
Finally AdIourned-County Could
Have Saved Money By Paying
Claims of Litigarts.
JURYMEN DISGUSTED WITH
PROTRACTED TRIALS

The jury term of court which was
called by Judge Conner to convene at
Plentywood, Sheridan county, Novem-
Der 28th, and which was reset for a
term commencing December 4th, at
1920, was finally adjourned this,
Friday morning, and the jury dis
missed after the verdict was filed in
case No. 4031, the case of Bernhard
jacobson VS.. Hugo Hass, both par
ties from Homestead, Attorneys Vol
lum & Paul appearing for jacobson
and Attorneys Lewis q Wagner ap-
pearing for Hugo Hass, and the jury
lnen have returned to their homes in
divers parts of the county.
This jury term has actually dis
posed of by trial three cases since it
was ca led The first case, the Oat-
look Elevator case against Brown took
q week: next was the case of lilex-
ander Walker against George Svor-
cum, which lasted four or five days,
involving about four hundred dollars
and costing the county about six hund-
red to try and finally the jacobson
case which involved s128 which cost
the county about $400 or $500 to try.
If the attorneys fees and court costs
and expenses to the litiGants we1e
thrown into pot, all Of the sums in
litigation could have been paid twice
ard then the taxpayers would have
been hundreds of dollars ahead. The
jury when home thoroughly disgusted
with the protracted hearings, as many
OF them said "over nothing" and the
resulting expense both to the county
and tho litigants. It will probably re-
suit however, in more settlements out
Of court in the future and the saving
Of money.
In the Jacobson case, Mr.. Jacobson
sued the garage man, Hugo Hass, of
Homestead, for alleged fraud in the
fixing of his car, in which he claimed
that Hass used wire instead of cotter
pins to fasten inside joints and that
he put in broken ring of another
make, when he had ordered and paid
for particular kind of a ring, and
which change he did not tell the
plaintiff about, etc.; and because Of
this inferior workmanship and snides,
he was annoyed and damaged to the
extent of S128. Mr.. jacobson paid
about $3.50 for having his car over
hauled and repaired. Hass in his de-
tense showed, that while he admitted
putting in ring of a different kind
after he had broken ring of the kind
that Jacobson had ordered and of
having made some pins out of wire,
that Mr.. Jacobson had not been
damaged thereby, and that Jacobson
had used his car two or three months
before he complained, for heavy pur-
poses, such as hauling grain aid 9TH
er heavy work and had worn his car
out again and injured it and that his
work or lack of work was not the
cause of Jacobson's trouble. A person
would have thought the case was a
boundary line dispute from the way
witnesses were put on and examined.
The ignorance of the lawyers in re-
gard to the simplest laws of physics
was the source of a lot of entertain
ment both for the jury and the spec
tators. The jury after being out for
four hours brought in verdict for
Hass, giving him judgment fori
costs against Jacobson in about the
sum Of S75. This case ended the term.
In the case of Walker VS.. Svorcum, the
jury found for Svorcum after weeks
trial, awarding the defendant Svorcum
a verdict against Walker in the sum
of two hundred dollars, when Walker
had sued for four hundred, and the
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