Please, ladies and gentlemen of the high court, reject the motion by the city of Marshall for a rehearing in the recently decided case of water rights at Caddo Lake.

Taxpayers will remember you favorably in the next election, we promise. It may just be the only way we can get our city to stop spending our money on this case.

We have just about given up that these legal bills will ever end. The only thing that can possibly stop them is if the city runs out of appeals. If such a thing is possible. We don't much doubt that this case may someday be heard before the International Tribunal at The Hague if the city's outside attorneys can possibly make it stretch that far. By the time this case ends, there may be an interplanetary court system.

So we are down to begging the state's supreme court for help to stop the bleeding of spending if it is at all possible.