Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-14 | Page 9 | Continue Trial in Spite of Influenza

IH SRIEof 111 Bransford Questioned by Attorney Regarding Presents. Postponement of the Holmes-Bransford Holmes-Bransford will case because of the Influenza In-fluenza epidemic waa discussed by counsel fur hoth sides In Judge Harold M. Stephens' court this morning, hut j a decision to continue the trial waa reached. t The suit was brought by Mrs. Susan Bransford Kinei y Holmes to recover one-half of the H0 00(1 enlute Ifft hy her adopted daughter. Mrs. (trace Kmery Bransford. Wallace Bransford, husband of the' daughter, received the estate under a will, and Mrs Holmes alleges that Bransford used undue in I fluence in persuading his wife to exe- ! cute the will. ' Kollowing the decision to continue the trial. Krttnsford took the with- ! stand and waa examined by .JiMle V. II )ckaon, attorney for Mrs. Holmes. In rcfutiitlon of Hraneford's former testimony that a wedding present to' himself and wife from Mrs. Holmes had not been received until a year and three , months after their marriage, J mine ltcksm presented telegrams from Spa 111 in e Company In Chicago to show that the gift, a five-piece sterling atlver tta sei and tray, had been delivered de-livered three months after the c-re-, monv was performed. ! The witness admitted that although I he had no real knowledge of the er-vicea er-vicea rendered by Mra. Holmes while j guardian of (.race l.Tn.-ry. he knew the i estate was mismanaged and that th ' $44,000 allowance granted by the court i for her aervices was unjust. He said ' he disc 11 sued the InJuMire of the allowance al-lowance with his sister, Ktella (Mrs I I-revie Kvanai ai d with hla wife, although al-though he never intimated to hla aunt, 1 Mrs. Holmes, that h thought the ; amount unjust,