Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1890-03-20 | Page 5 | A Youth in Court

A Youth In Court BOSTON March 19 James Seth Adams a boy of seven is suing through friends his fathers third wife to establish his right to onefourth of an estate of 75000 left by the late Seth Adams of Newton to the children of his brother Charles W Adams The plaintiff a child of Charles Adams and Hannah Phillips His mother was born in England in 1853 She met tho plaintiffs father in 1873 and came to America Amer-ica with him in the capacity of governess for his children Subsequently she returned re-turned to England but in 1S < 3 returned and assumed mantle relations with her future husband They resided in various sections of the country and in 1881 tho plain tiff was born at San Francisco A few months later Adams obtained a divorce di-vorce in California from hisr third wife The defendants mother died in 18S7 The third wife contends that the divorce was illegal on the ground that her husband had no domicile in California that she was not notified of the proceedings and was not guilty of abandonment as is alleged If the divorce is illegal the plaintiff flag no share in the estate in question