Word: utah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Sutherland, 65, born in Buckinghamshire, England, and put on the high bench by President Harding. He spent his boyhood and young-lawyer's life in Utah, until sent to Congress. He is sometimes confused with a Scotch-Canadian namesake who, a good Baptist minister and college president, campaigns for the Anti-Saloon League in Nebraska. But not often, for he takes care to give "c/o Supreme Court of the U. S." as his address, in Who's Who, and wears a short beard of silver-tipped distinction. He is usually to be found on the vested-rights...
Convalescent in hospital, Judge Johnson, a public servant whose experience includes school teaching among Indians, declared Widow Simmons irresponsible, crazy, hallucinated. So did U. S. Senator William H. King of Utah, who was surprised to hear that Mrs. Simmons, whom he had never met, would rather have "gotten" him than Judge Johnson for assistance she fancied he had rendered the Utah Copper...
When the clerk of the U. S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, began to read the court minutes one morning last week, no one took much notice of a plain middle-fortyish woman who sat on the front bench, apparently listening. Most eyes were engaged in watching Judge Tillman Davis Johnson settle himself behind his bench for a morning's work. Judge Johnson is 69 and not undistinguished in appearance. Few of the people in the courtroom even noticed the plain lady when she rose from her seat and approached the bench with a folded magazine...
...kill Judge Tillman Davis Johnson? Mrs. Eliza Simmons, widow, was one person. "I'll show you how to get justice!" was what she had screamed as she shot. At her home, Widow Simmons produced a rambling document penned by her, in which she declared war on the Utah Copper Co., for whom her husband had been a brakeman until his accidental death in 1910, and on "hardboiled" Judge Johnson...
...Simmons sued the Utah Copper Co. for $10,500 for herself and four children. State courts awarded her $850. In 1924, it occurred to her to ask a new judgment, for $25,000. Judge Johnson dismissed the case in his court...