| Show A VERY IMPORTANT RULING THE supreme court of the united states has baa once more sat down heavily on the utah courts in an important legal question readers of the DESERET NEWS will remember the cope case which went through the courts here from the probate court up to the supreme court of the territory and turned on the question as to inheritance of a deceased fathers estate by the offspring of a polygamous marriage the courts ruled against the right of such children to inherit this paper took the ground that the intent of the edmonds act of 1882 was to render legitimate to all intents and purposes the children of such marriages up to the date mentioned in that act that the clause relating to this matter was framed for the protection of such children in their rights of property as well as in other things thing of course 0 our r taku ing ng issue with the courts was ridiculed by the liberal organ it appears from our dispatches dispatched today that the supreme court of the united states takes the very ground we occupied in ref reference ernce to this case the dispatch says the court holds that a son by polygamous marriage did have the right and reverses the judgment of the territorial court the court says the edmunds act declared legitimate all children of mormon parents horn born within less than twelve months from its passage ti T e object the court says was to make these unfortunate children an especial ob object fetn act of care and to make the parents relinquish polygamy by fixing the period until after which their children should be legitimate the opinion was deliverer del de iverel livere I 1 by the new associate justice and we suppose it was an unanimous ruling as no dissent is mentioned it is of great consequence to the people of utah as it establishes the rights of a large number of children born before jan 1st ast 1883 who are declared legitimate in every sense of the term we are pleased at this de decision olsion of the court of last resort not only for the settlement of property rights which it secures but for the evidence it affords that the court is still disposed not to use any strained construction of the laws in its adjudication of the mormon question |
