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Show WIDOW DEFEATED IN PENSION SUIT The case ot Mrs. Ura D. Rowbury vs. James H. Gardner, Joseph Reeso and Charles Wright ot the board .ot Utah .county commissioners wherein the iplalntltf petitioned tho Fourth district court tor a writ of mandamus mandam-us compelling tho county commission-era commission-era to proYido a fund for tho support sup-port of widowed mothers, came to a sudden termination late Saturday afternoon af-ternoon .when Judge Ellas Hanson rendered a decision in favor of the members" ot the county board and against Mrs. Rowbury. . Tho action Is said to1 have been brought nt tho Instigation of George ' A. Startup who for a number ot years ' has tried to have established In this county n special widowed mothers' ' pension fund.- ' After the arguments Judgo Hansen quashed the alternative writ ot man-dato man-dato that ho had issued on tho application appli-cation ot tho plantlff. He construed tho supreme court's decision that bo-foro bo-foro any porson could bo heard by tho district court on this kind of a proceeding an application for assistance assist-ance under this net must first have been mado to tho county commissioners, commis-sioners, and such application has been dented.' Only by such a pro-coodlng pro-coodlng can '"anyone invoko tho aid ot tho district court. The court" pointed out that the plaintiff plain-tiff had failed to show that sho or any othor. widow In the county had ever made an application to the board under the provisions of this at and had been refused financial asstt-slncd. asstt-slncd. It" was further shown that) there was boP showing made that the board ot county commissioners had ever., boon guilty of a violation ot tho act for tho support of widowed mothers. It Is stated that the decision effec tively disposed ot all the contentions heretofore made by Mr. Startup in an action before the supreme court last year, wherein that court decided that Startup wag not entitled to succeed on the grounds that he wasn't Interested Inter-ested legally In any such matter. The commissioners contend that they have never violated the act for tho support ot widowed mothers and have never refused a widow rollot under un-der this act, but, on the contrary, they claim, they havo spent thousands thous-ands ot dollars In giving financial assistance to deserving widows of the county, In discussing tho caso, following tho court's doclsion Commissioner Joseph Reeso declared that tho action was based on a more technicality wherein tho widows pension fund is carried with the poor and1 ludtqont, fund, Instead In-stead of a soparato ftmd being established estab-lished for tho. widows, |