Show HARD BATTLE OVER BRANSFORD WILL I PREDICTED Estate Valued at More Than Jury to Try Case Time for or hearl hearing of oC the Ural Bransford for will wi case casc Is expected to lo ho bo set today a ata t N consultation con con- between Judge P P- C. C and Judge Robert nobert B. B l Porter At the thc request of oC Mrs Irs SU Susan n B ii Emery Imen Holmes Holms contestant contestant con con- of or the tho will It will willbo bo be a Jury trial trial Th rno case ense which Is 1 one of the tho most Important Important Im Im- irn- irn In tho the annals of or tho the third district courts court's s probate division i is expected to bo be tho basis for one of th the hardest fou fought ht Jc legal legal ever staged In the court court The action is based hued on tho the protest ted filed b by Mrs Ir Holmes the Silver SU Queen of Utah against the tho granting of tho lie petition petton filed clI by Wallace S. S Bransford nephew of Mrs Holmes and eon son of or former Mayor John s. s Bransford ford for admission to 0 probate of or the will wi of Mrs Grace Graco lx Louise Julo ulso Emery Emry Bransford ford who was the tho wife o of Wallace allace alace S S. Mr Mrs Bransford was the he adopted daughter or of Albion B B. B Emery Emer first of ur Mrs Ir Holmes to the tho contention of Mrs Irs Holmes Holme the estate left lel by liv Mrs Bransford wan W 1 valued at upward of and she contends that liar Mr Mrs Ir Bransford Rr died intes- intes Intel Intel- tate thereby disputing the tho authenticity or o validity of the wi will BRANSFORD'S PETITION In his Ills petition for admission of or tho the will wi ill to probate proba te Bransford alleges that tha the estate estat estat is worth probably nothing since Mrs Ir Bransford had deeded all HI her property to him prior to her death Reference Is made mare In that petition to a asuit suit slit which i Is now pending In iii 11 tho ho district court filed fed by h Mrs Irs Bransford In an m effort pHort to nullify those deeds and antI to obtain I for herself an al undivided half iii Interest Ir In the tile estate Mrs Bransford died October I 4 24 1917 at t Los Angeles The will wi which Bransford seeks to lo have h e probated bears tho thE date late April 6 26 Hod Roderick crick McKenzie Mc- Mc Kenzle Kenzie and Robert B. B arc are Inscribed in inscribed In- In scribed as witnesses The will 1 to Bransford the Iho entire estate but hut cl clause entre a uMe In it I provides that should Bransford havo o died before his wire wife Mrs Holmes should hould havo have re received received re- re each of the thc three sisters RIter of or Lm ry should have received lOOi and the residue hould should have gone to th the heirs heirI of or Bran Bransford ford As 1 Bransford Ione survived sur sur- her the latter later clau clause e Is lr void One clause of the th will wi names Bransford to lo be executor of the lie estate serving without without without with with- out bond MRS HOLMES' HOLMES PROTEST Tho Tue protest filed ted b by ly Mrs Holmes Is based on 1 practically the Iho lie same grounds rounds a as tho those thoe sot set st forth in suit she filed ted n against Bransford to obtain obain half the lie estate of her late adopted d daughter She SIte declares that her nephew conceived tho Idea Idel of or obtaining obtain obtain- In ing the en entire lre property for or him himself lf and did so 80 1 by alienating the lie affections of or his wife wie from frol her foster foter mother She also alO alleges aleJe that thai Mrs Irs Bransford was In ill 1 health bodily and m mentally for fora I a long tIme lime prior to her death and that her husband exerted undue influence over her during that period Brans ford contends contend In his petition how however vor that thal his wife was of sound am and amI disposing mind wh when n she made her last will wi and testament Should Bransford win either cither the tho will wi case or the suit sui filet filed ted ag against him b by Mrs Holmes the tho result will wil he be to lo give Ivo him possession and control of the estate Should Mrs Ir Holmes succeed In preventing prevent prevent- ing the tic of the wi will she mu must t yet et win the other suit Bult In to order to obtain the Interest she sho seeks in the properly |