(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The attorneys for Aaron Sapiro, Jewish attorney of Chicago, and Henry Ford were to confer today to arrange a system of gathering depositions to be used in the suit of Aaron Sapiro against Henry Ford and his “Dearborn Independent” for $1,000,000 damages growing out of a series of articles published in that paper.
In Federal Court, Judge Benson W. Hough of Columbus, Ohio, granted a petition filed by the Ford attorneys for a postponement of the trial until March. 1927, over the objections of Sapiro’s attorneys. Heated arguments featured the hearing on the petition. Senator James Reed of Missouri, one of Ford’s counsel, figured in several of the lively arguments over the question of postponement. The suit was scheduled to commence September 14th. Charges that the Ford attorneys were attempting to obstruct the progress of the suit were made by Henry Gallagher, one of Sapiro’s attorneys, in commenting on the method of taking depositions. In an affidavit, Mr. Gallagher charged that Ford tried to avoid service of subpoena and resorted to stringent measures.
In closing the proceedings, Judge Hough warned the counsel of both sides that unless they agreed upon the system and itenarary of the taking of depositions, he would force a strict policy upon them. Although a notation appears in the docket of the Federal Court showing that a certificate of prejudice had been filed while Judge Arthur J. Tuttle was trying the case, it appeared in today’s hearing that Judge Tuttle withdrew voluntarily after having differences of opinion with the Ford attorneys.
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