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Show I CASE AGIST THE BISHOPjlllSSED Supreme Court of Washington Washing-ton Reviews Decision in Magnuson Suit. SEATTLE, Oct. 4V Directing that Bishop Edward J. O'Dea of Seattle be dismissed as a party to the suit, tbe state supreme court ordered today ji new trial in tbe damage case of Lizzie Magnuson against tbo corporation of the Catholic Bishop or! Nisqually, the Sisters of the Visitation, a corporation, and several individuals. The suit grew out of the alleged kidnaping kid-naping of Mrs. Magnuson 'a 16-year-old daughter, Marjoric liilman, and her de-icntion de-icntion bv the Sisters of tho Visitation. Mrs. Magnuson was awarded $23,033 damages by a jury in tho superior court. It was held by the supremo court in its decision today that passion and prejudice prej-udice wero shown in returning a verdict ver-dict against Bishop O'Dea and that he should not have been made a party to the suit. Tho court held also that the damages awarded were excessive as Mrs. Magnuson had testified thai she expended only $3000 in effecting the release of her daughter. Tho mother was the proper custodian of tho girl, said the decision, but ,"he was entitled oulv to compensator- damages. Tho alleged kidnaping of Marjone Tiilman Jed to a series of sensational trials a vear or moro ago involving attempts at-tempts in the juvenile courts of Seattle and San Francisco to prove Mrs. Mag-mifon Mag-mifon to be an improper person to have control of the girl. In awarding damages dam-ages to Mrs. Magnuson, a jury in tho superior court here hold that she had been persecuted and allowed extra judgments judg-ments for malicious persecution. |