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Show IS SEEKING TO HAVE comer RESCUED Interesting Action Is Still I Claiming Attention of the District Court. Contending that she was influenced ! through prayer by John A. Burt of the Burt & Carlquist company to enter into a real estate contract that she is now tryinp to break by process of law. Bessie Slreitt was unable under cross-examination yesterday in the Third district court to cite proof that she its a church mem-i mem-i bcr. i Mrs. Streitt save her a;e as years. . Her daughter told the court that her ace ! was On cross-examination, it was brought out that the mother must have j been yea rs of age when her daughter I was born. In addition to this. Mrs. Streitt testified that she had yet another child, a son, younger than the daughter of 36. The plaintiff prays in the suit for restoration of her home in Salt I -ike, which she traded for a farm property at North Point, or for J3635 in lieu therof. claiming that ehe was fraudulently in-dueeri in-dueeri to trade and that the farm property proved of less worth than represented. In the proceedings yesterday the plaintiff plain-tiff admitted on cross-examination that since she had become dissatisfied with the farm Burt A Carlquist had found an opportunity for her to sell it for S4i'00. Throughout the grilling to which she was submitted by Attorney John Jensen for the defense, Mrs. Streitt reiterated her storv that Mr. Burt prayed for her and with her that she should see the wisdom of acceding to his judgment in making the deal in question. Mrs. Streitt was unable to cite evidence evi-dence that she had been a churchgoer and admitted that 6he was once arrested ar-rested in Murray for fighting with a neighbor woman. During the progress of the trial yes-terdav yes-terdav a contract was introduced, signed by Mrs. Streitt and witnessed by her daughter, showing that the Burt & Carlquist Carl-quist companv had negotiated a first trade of a home in Murray for the property prop-erty on South Second West street in this city, which later figured in the second sec-ond trade. second contract was introduced o the defense showinsr that it had been signed by the husband and son of Mrs. Streitt as witnesses to the contract. On the witness stand the witnesses admitted their signatures and they, together with the Vlausrhter, admitted having made examination ex-amination of the farm property before the contract was made. |