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 DELAY IN CIVIL PROCEDURE IN CHICAGO decrees, and orders may be vacated, set aside or modified at any time within thirty days after the entry thereof. All offices of the court are to have fixed salaries, and no officers are allowed to receive any compensation from any one except the salary fixed by law. This feature is in spired by the abuse in the justice courts due to the fact that justices are paid on the fee system and receive no fixed salaries. It is intended to make the Municipal Court

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a court of dignity, and it is hoped it will be free from the abuses of the present justice court system. Its establishment will greatly reduce the number of pending cases in the Circuit and Superior Courts, and it is believed in time the judges of the three courts will be able to dispose of their calendars without the present long delay to litigant?. CHICAGO, ILL., April, 1905.

There was on both sides much to say: He'd hear the cause another day. And so he did; and then a third, He heard it — there, he kept his word; But with rejoinders or replies, Long bills and answers stuffed with lies, Demur, imparlance and essoign The parties ne'er could issue join. For sixteen years the cause was spun And then stood where it first begun. SWIFT'S Cademus and Vanessa.