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Show DEMURRER SUSTAINED IN HILTON-PARK CASE Ruling Made bv Judge Armstrong Arm-strong in Celestial Marriage Controversy. Judge Armstrong made a r iling Saturday Satur-day in the. famous Hilton-Park estate controversy, when he sustained a demurrer demur-rer to a portion of the petition of Mrs. Annie p. a. Milton, asking that he be paid $10 40u out of the Park estate, as her dower rU ht In propertx sold hy I r Park In his lifetime. Had Sued Park Estate. Mrs. Hilton. It will be remembered, brought suit against the Park estate upon the death of Dr. Park, some years ago, nlleging that she was married to Dr. Park many years ago. and that the mar-i mar-i luge wa In f..i . . : 1 1 I he I line ,,f his dc -miss, The marriage was of the "celestial" "celes-tial" variety of tin Mormon chinch, and the courts held that Mm. Hilton was the wiie ..r in Park at the lime of his death and she was given a dower right In the property which he possessed at that time What Mrs. Hilton Alleged. During his lifetime, however, Dr. Park disposed of considerable real estate and U was this property that formed the basis .f Mrs Hilton's petition in the Pro-bats Pro-bats court. She alleged that she was the "owm r of and entitled 10 One third Interest Inter-est In value in each and all of the several sev-eral parcels of rial estate." conveyed by Dr. Park, "as the surviving wife and w idow of said" dece, lent," :iinl ask-d that ishe be paid $ia.4'o oul of the estate Court Holds Demurrer Good. Judge Armstrong held the demurrer good us to the puragrapn In the petition alleging that she was the "owner" of the one-third, but denied the motion to strike out the paragraph, and gave the petitioner leave to a mi n 1 |