Show ILL IN ESTATE W WORTH HT I I 50 O OI I D DECIDED m Testament of Edward A. A Swan Deceased Is Held Valid by Four of Five Supreme Court Justices f A decision handed down BY by the supreme court of I Utah today the will of the late i Edward A. A Swan capitalist of I Salt Lake was held to be valid I and the beneficiaries arc are allowed to participate in the estate The Tile case is said to have been one of the most remarkable ever everI presented before a court in this I state Swan died a few years ago leaving an estate valued at about including Main street prop prop- erty Ulysses Grant Swan petitioned to probate the will in 1915 protest being entered by a granddaughter Mrs Maud A. A Blackford of Idaho The petitioner declared that Mr Swan van I had intentionally omitted reference I to Mrs Blackford in m the tIe will in that he had given her all he intended I while he was living I 1 Evidence was given in the district court and a verdict in favor avor of Ulysses Ulysses Ulysses Ulys Ulys- i I ses Grant Swan was returned Against this Mrs Blackford appealed The appeal came before the supreme I court last year ear when there were three judges on the bench Chief Justice and Justice McCarty decided I against the decision of ot the district court while Justice Frick the present I chief chiet justice upheld It A motion for a rehearing was then made and I it was granted I The judgment handed down today Is upon the rehearing and the su supreme supreme supreme su- su preme court by a majority ruling I reverses its decision five members hearing tho case Four Jour of the judges I decided that tho the will was valid while Justice McCarty held to his dissenting I view Justice McCarty in his Judgment judgment Judg judg- ment scored Ulysses Grant Swan Hwan I whose veracity was questioned by Mrs frs Blackford I |