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Show Iposipoiiot OF MI MED Court Told That Deposition of III Witness Cannot Be Taken. , Whether or not the Holmes-Brans- ford will suit ease on trial before Judge Harold M. Stephens of the Third district court shall be postpoaed on account of the Illness of Mrs. Chris IMehl. an Important wltnesa for the plaintiff, was the subject of lengthy arguments on the part of Vmnael en both sides at this morning's ssssloa ef court. The cult has bean brought by Mrs. Susaa Brajuford Emery Holmes to recover re-cover one-half of an I (OS. to aetata willed to her nephew, Wallace Brans -ford, by his wife, Mm Orrnce ginei i Bransford. adopted daughter of. Mrs. Holmes. Mental Incapacity on the part of the testatrix and undue taflu- ' fence onThe part of the beneficiary are aiirgea oy tna piaintirr. I The testimony of Mrs. Dlehl le Im- portent, as ehe eialme to have heard I Mrs. Grace Breneford declare that she ' never had been able to buy a. drees after she married Bransford. except when ehe asked him for the money, and that eUlieugli the property be- longed to her, be had oompleta poe-sees poe-sees oa of It. Mrs. Dlehl hae been suffering from Innuenxa for several weeks, testified Chris Dlehl, and her lllnesa precludes ths taking of a deposition at this time. Dr. J. C. Hanchett. attending physician, phy-sician, waa eumrooued thla afternoon to give his opinion as to how long the case might have to be poetponed before be-fore Mrs. Diehl's condition would warrant war-rant a deposition being taken. W. W. Ray, counsel for the defence, la Inlt.rl Stales district attorney and resists the postponement beoauee It will Interfere with federal caeea which are shoot to he c.M.it. he weird |