Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-25 | Page 5 | $1,000,000 is Given to Oregon School

11,000,111 IS GIVER IB OREGON SCHOOL Validity of tho Will of Mrs. Amanda Reed Is Upheld . by Portland Court. PORTLAND, Aug. 1. County Judco Webster today handed down his decision In the celebrated Reed will case, ruling that Mrs. Amanda Kccd's legal domicile at tho time of her death was In Portland, Port-land, and that the terms of the will, In which more than $1,000,000 was given "for the establishment of an educational Institution In-stitution In Oregon, will thus stand. Tho attorney representing tho contestants con-testants of the will at once gave police that the ca3c would be appealed to the State Circuit court. It will probably bo carried to tho Stato Supreme court before be-fore It ,1s finally settled. Tho point at Issue was In rogard lo Mrs. Reed's legal domicile al the time of nor death. If Pasadena, Cal whero she was living when sho died, was her legal residence, as claimed by the contestants con-testants of the will, the laws of California Cali-fornia would have applied, under which more than one-third of an estate can not bo given for charitable purposes, and tho intention of Mrs. Reed to endow a large educational institution in Oregon would have been defeated.