Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-02-04 | Page 14 | Fraud Alleged in Property Transfer

FRAUD ALLEGED II PifERTHlffl Estate of the Late Bishop Raleigh Involved in Court Proceedings. Fraudulent transfer of property 0f a value of $20,000 from the estate of the late Bishop Alonzo Hazelton Kaleigh to the Mormon church is alleged in a suit to recover filed yesterday in the third district court by Orson Rumel, administrator admin-istrator of the estate, against Alfred Solomon, one-time administrator of the estate, and Joseph F. Smith, trustee of the church. The. court is asked to adjudge the property transferred subject to the provisions pro-visions of the testator's will for certain trust funds and benefits. The property in question is lot 1, block 114, plat A, Salt Lake City survey, located at First West and Second North streets. Transfer Trans-fer is alleged to have been made on or before some date in March, 902. The complaint alleges that without the property in question there is not sufficient in the estate to provide for five beneficiaries as specifically stipulated stipu-lated in the will. The beneficiaries in question are Emily P. Kaleigh and Elizabeth Eli-zabeth A. P. Kaleigh, the widows of the testator; Caroline C. Raleigh Wells and Maria K. Raleigh Wood, two daughters, daugh-ters, and David P. Raleigh, a son. Tt is set forth in the complaint that the will provided that a trust fund should be created by the administrators of the estato sufficient to bring a return re-turn of $578 a year, to he divided among the three last, named beneficiaries benefi-ciaries at the rate of $16 a. month each. It. is alleged that none of the benefits bene-fits stipulated have been paid for eight years last past and that the trust fund was never created. It is further alleged that such payments pay-ments as were made of the benefits following the death of Bishop Raleigh, May 13, 1901, were made from the estate es-tate and not from the earnings of a trust fund such as provided for in the will The court is asked to adjudge the defendants accountable for the value of the property alleged to have been transferred trans-ferred and for interest on the same from the time of the transfer to the time of such judgment. It is alleged in the complaint that if the will contemplated any donation or 1 transfer of any part of the property of the testator to the Mormon church it was not the intention that it should have been so donated or transferred until un-til all other provisions of the will had been fulfilled with regard to benefits to the family of the late bishop.