Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-11-24 | Page 3 | Celestial Marriage Cases Are at Last Terminated in Court

MARK MARRIAGE CASES ARE AT LAST fERMINA TED IN COURT Formal Ending of f the Suits Brought by Mrs Hilton Against ParK Estate Judge charles harles W. W y Morse in the district ills dis co court rt signed nine a adverse decrees I Yesterday in n th lh f thu thus bringing gin those cases to to i a. a legal a end d and nna concluding one ono of the tim most moat noted lights over ever made mado in Jn the thc Utah courts The Park Hilton cases cases' ha have held th the attention of or tho courts in lit this state slate for more than nIne years They arose from the claims claim's made mad by bv Mrs Mra- Jr Annie F. F A. A Hilton to the estate of of Dr John R. R Park So tangled and knotty were the tho points Involved in the tho case that two opinions were cre handed down by the supreme court courtn n the 1110 matter Mrs Irs Hilton Hillon laid claim to the estate on th ho the ground that twenty t years before she h had d b become come the celestial wife of Dr Park jark under inder the rites ritos of the Mormon church hureh h when n she was ws believed belle to 10 be ho oh on her lier death death- i bed bcd She recovered and a church divorce was had separating t them She was I married afterward to to- Mr Ir Hilton Silo She had never lived with Dr Park I Tho The actions instituted i I by l H Hilton were against Leo W. W Thatcher Mao Mae C C. Deamer Everard Adolph Ander- Ander ton Fred C. C r. r 1 Nellie K N. Blair Salt Lake City and G Geoghegan Dr Park was wa president of the state stale university it and accumulated a comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- able fortune in real estate After his death Mrs 1 Hilton 1 claimed a dower ri right ht in the the- thc estate but h before the claim was ma made e the property had been sold Eold to the I I Ima owners oJ named in the la lawsuit ws In the he first hearing before tho supreme court It ft was held that the celestial marriage mar mar- gave ravo do lr l Mrs Hilton the st status lus of ot a it common la law wife if 1 giving In her a fL dower I I right in the estate thus thu's r reversing Judge I Morse J The other cases were decided by Judge Morse 1010 in conformity with the tho su supreme su- su u- u promo preme c court ourt decision Jon and an appeal war was takei by the defendants The supreme court in the appeal pl aJ con considered the matter matteI Iii in ina a new nw light and while not re reversing reversing re- re the first opinion again reversed the tho low lower r court 1 that ha t Dr Ir Ca Turks Turk's rk wife li Is 1 Hilton niton had knowingly i alf allowed him to the property 1 she he had nt never ner r raf Nl a It claim for or an un Int Interest rest during his lifetime For 10 this this' reason tb the tho supreme court t she was as not entitled to any part of the thc stat estate tat She thus lost her hr I fi fight ht though though- her r Ft as aM the celestial or or law lav wJ wife of or Dr Park was definitely fixed fixed f 9 V. j The Thc d s tl d by by were were Cr CrIn In lii conformity with this l t i and definitely do closed pd one vonc of or the most Ic legal al al fa cases rass s 's ever cr con con- I d in the courts of nf f I