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Show AGED WOffl m WARD WIBTEB REESE Action Is for Money Alleged Al-leged to Be Due on Contract. The "Rev. Ward Winter Reese, archdeacon arch-deacon of the Episcopal Church of Utah, is made the defendant in a suit filed in the city court by Mrs. Elizabeth Eliz-abeth Acock, a widow, S3 years of age. The stated purpose of the action is the recovery of $107, alleged due as back payment under an arrangement by which Mrs. Acock deeded certain property prop-erty in escrow to the defendant on cer-dition cer-dition that he pay her an allowance of a month. The allegation made by the plaintiff is that the amount of judgment judg-ment asked represents the delinquency of the defendant in these payments. Mrs. Acock is a communicant of the Episcopal church. KJie alleges further in her complaint that the defendant led her to believe that she was placing plac-ing a mortgage for $200 against the property in (pi est ion to pay the expense ex-pense "of street improvements, when she was actually consenting to a mortgage mort-gage for $1000. The actual expense of the improvements:, she alleges, were only $160. S.S, leaving a balance of .5.12 in this count that should be due her. On the other hand, Bishop Paul Jones of the Salt Lake diocese ot the Episco- Sal church, said yesterday that the ev. W. W. Reece, up to August 1, 1915, had paid 1561.74 to Mrs. Acock, and since that time, tip to September 1 of this year, had paid her $150. For For the amount of $1501. 74 he holds her receipt, according to Bishop Jones, and recently wrote asking why she had not acknowledge1 payment of the $150. The filing of the suit was the only answer to the inquiry, said Bishop Jones. The Rev. Mr. Reese declares that Mrs. Acock knew that the mortgage was for the sum of $1000, and not for $200, as Mrs. Acock now represents. In support sup-port of this statement the Rev. Mr. Reese last night produced witnesses in whose presence Mrs. Acock affixed her mark to the instrument, and these witnesses corroborate Mr. Reese. |