Show J Albert Eccles Estate Contest Principal Weds Plaintiff in Celebrated Litigation ti tion n in 1915 Married to Miss Caroline Thomas Thomasin in Sa Salt t Lake Temple The principal In one of ot Utah's most celebrated estate cases and heir to a a. fortune variously estimated ed as' as about a 21 qu quarter of ot a million dollars when he was only 16 years of ot age was married today when Albert Albert Albert Al Al- bert Eccles son of ot Mrs Margaret I Eccles 1621 Harvard avenue wedI wedded wedded wed wed- ded Miss Caroline Thomas prominent prominent nen nent Salt Lake society girl The I ceremony mony was performed by President President I dent lIeber Heber J T Grant in the temple at noon I By a Jury verdict In one of ot the bitterest legal battles ever sought fought In courts of ot this state Mr 1 Eccles was adjudged g dan an heir to the late David Eccles of ot Ogden multimillionaire multimillionaire sugar and lumber magnate of ot Utah and Oregon The legal contest which was fought In the Second district court at Ogden during durI during dur dur- ing ng the e early summer Qt pt o 1915 came I some months after the sudden death of ot Mr Eccles In this city In 1914 SUES FOR PART IN ESTATE Represented by a guardian the young Mr Eccles then known as Albert Geddes brought suit to participate participate participate par par- in the estate of ot the late financier along with more than a score acore of ot heirs sons and daughters of ot two surviving widows In support support support sup sup- port of ot his s claim to a share of Qt the vast estate it was contended that his mother was also a a. widow of ot the wealthy Ogden man as the result of ot otan an alleged polygamous marriage although al although although al- al though In his life she had not been known as Mrs E Eccles cles The case was on trial for tor several weeks b before fore Judge James A A. A Howell Howell Howell How- How ell elland and included among the witnesses witnesses wit witnesses wit wit- nesses was at le least st one handwriting Ung expert of ot nationwide fame tame The case caso also attracted attention throughout the country because of the unusual contention contention regarding regarding i the alleged third marriage and tho the vast vast- fortune left by the dead financier finan finan- cier cler SIX TO TWO VERDICT I ITh The Th verdict adjudging ng Albert Eccles Eccles Eccles Ec Ec- cles a legitimate heir of ot the Ogden capitalist was a to 6 affair the majority in favor tavor of ot the youth being I sufficient to declare him one of ot the tho many heirs to the estate The verdict ver- ver i diet dict was never no contested In any I higher court and the amoun amount actually actual actual- actual l ly received by the young heir bell from irom the estate was never made public although It was estimated to be I from to Senator William H H. was wag I chief counsel for Albert Eccles Eceles and I his guardian in their fight to particIpate participate pate in the estate Thomas Marl Marl- was associate counsel for young Geddes while the Ogden law firm then composed of ot the late CA CA C C. A. A Boyd and James H. H Devine to together together together to- to I gether with Frank Frank Gustin of ot Salt Lake represented the Eccles heirs heirs heirs' opposing apposing t the tho o claim Mr 11 Eccles I whose marriage took place today j was born In Ogden May 21 1899 He has been a student In the Salt I Lake public schools and also the I University of ot Utah II |