Show CITY IS INVOLVED IN SUIT OF MRS ANNE HilTON f She Can Claim a Portion of State Street t JUDGES ARE DISQUALIFIED Baskin and Miner Were Interested Inter-ested in Realty Deals If Dr Parks Estate Will Not Secure Warranty Deeds the City Taxpayers Tax-payers May Have to Pay ITbe01 lthfclengr The latest turn i In the litigation over the Dr Park estate brings the case home to every taxpayer In Salt Lake and opens up an endless vlnta bounded on either hand with fine legal points and interesting complications In declaring the church ceremony that scaled Anne Armltage to Dr Parka Park-a binding marriage the Supreme court Invalidated all the deeds wlgncd by Dr Park after the marriage and gave It Is claimed by Mrs Hiltons attorney one hlrd of all the realty so trans fererd to Mrs Hilton The property includes all of State street from the Park homestead to tho Capitol grounds a portion of irit North street and tho lots owned by Glen Miller George F Stiehl the dentist Tuttle Bros Dr Dred Stauffcr Murray C Godhe Wil lard Young A W Carlson Parley P Pratt Joseph C Klngsbury George E Blair and others living on the slope of Capitol hill also the realty on tho canyon road deeded by the city to Dr Park and by him to subsequent owners own-ers It Is a portion of the latter realty held by W S McCornlck that Mrs Hilton began suit to recover Saturday Satur-day CITY MADE EXCHANGE Up to 18ES Capitol hill was not platted plat-ted but the purchase of the Statehouse State-house grounds made It desirable to extend ex-tend State street Accordingly < tho city proposed a trade giving Dr Park the Canyon road ground for his Capitol i hill holdings The trade was made Dr Park giving and receiving warranty 1 deeds He then sold off the canyon property guaranteeing the title In the same manner Of course he did not 1 secure the signature of his wife because be-cause he did not know that he had I one I oneWIDOW WIDOW WANTS TWOTHIRDS Hence If tho law of estoppel does not act as a bar Mrs Hilton Is i the legal owner of onethird of North State street as well as the rest of the land deedednw y by prPark and the homestead home-stead he occupied at the time of his death She claims a third of the property prop-erty he traded to the city and a third of the property he received from the city In exchange making her alleged Interest twothirds of all that he owned at a Klveh time If he made a third trade she would have hail the same claim to the value of the whole estate An Dr Park rjavo warranty deeds for all the really that passed through his hands the present holders cair comeback come-back on his estate for the Interest claimed by Mrs Hilton The estate consists of the homestead valued at 530000 Mrs Hiltons share In this Is J10000 leaving 20000 to secure the warranty deeds If that Is enough well and good but If not the city as tho giver of the next deeds would be liable for the balance of the widows claim on the Capitol hill bound JUDGES INTERESTED An examination pt the real estate transfers shows that tO of the Supreme Su-preme Justices who oat on tho hearing of the Hilton case were partieD In In tcreat and could have been dloQuall fled 1C the point hall been ralucd Many 1 1t t tI J V U of tho deeds given by the city to Dr Parks former property were executed In 1S01 J when Judge R M Baskln was Mayor Judge James A Miner It Is shown by the abstract was the holder of a mortgage for 1000 on the property of George F Stlehl ats Irustec for Hattie Hat-tie E McQucwan In 1S07 SLEPT ON HER RIGHTS While the court of highest resort hns I held that Mrs Hilton was the legal i wife of Dr Park and as such entitled to a dower Interest In his estate a new Issue will be ralcd In her suit to collect 1 col-lect a third of the value of the property prop-erty he deeded away It will be argued by the defendant that aha was posing as the wife of another man and sleeping sleep-ing on her rights while the property paused Into the hands of Innocent purchasers pur-chasers and that she Is therefore estopped from coming In at this late date and asking restitution What the outcome will bo and how many other peculiar complications can be evolved out of this novel situation remains to be seen |