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Show imuu iVlll 1. OjJl Supremo Court; Rules on Plurality- A man ia under moral bntzsoi legal obligations to .support hjjs-plural hjjs-plural wives and ed ucate tbe-j tbe-j children by such unions. Th&i is the purport of a decision handed hand-ed down yesterday in the state supreme court. It was written by Chief Justice Baskin in tlje-. case of Mary Caroline Riddlt?;. respondent, vs. Isaac Riddle, appellant, ap-pellant, on appeal from the district dis-trict court of Ut-ih county. Us lower court held t'aat the de-. fendant was legally bound lev support his plural wife. In vorsing that decision the supreme su-preme court says at the concln. lion of the lengthy opinion: i "We are, however, of the opia-ion opia-ion that he became arid still ::. morally bound, not only, if ate& to do so, to support his plarai wives, but clso to support a&j& educate the children of his flar al wives begotten by him. "Bit, I as secular courts are powerless-. I to enforce any but legal ob2i.&- L&O.U&. tb-iadwgp-'J -iJJe. ! versed. '''Herdicl. ( |