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Show o HURST AFFILIATES WITH GUARANTEE CO. William Hurst, for many years a prominent abstractor of Beaver and Milford and well known in southern Utah business circles, has announced his affiliation with the Intermountaiii Title Guaranty Company, with central offices in Salt Lake City. Mr. Hurst announces that he will continue in the abstract business, but that his new connection will allow him to provide two-fold service in that field. The change, Mr. Hurst points out. has been ms.de because of the increasing increas-ing demand raid necessity for complete com-plete protection of titles of property-He property-He states that title insurance is rapidly rapid-ly supplanting the abstract, which, in itself, has been proven insufficient insuffici-ent as a guarantee against the possible possi-ble loss or invalidating of an owner's claim to properly. Abstracts, it is pointed out, may be perfectly sound on their face, and yet furnish but feeble defense to litigation liti-gation which may be brought from several sources. Throughout the many transactions which become a part of every title, forged deeds, deeds revoked re-voked by the death or insanity of the principal, deeds by a minor, an insane person or a person under the influence of liquor, claims by undisposed heirs, deeds invalidated by the discovery of lost or suppressed wills, and many other hidden defects may at any time render the instrument null and void. However, under the terms of title insurance, the property owner places the entire matter in the hands of the insuring company. The company prosecutes the case in court of law and in case of defeat indemnifies the holder of the policy. The Intermountain Title Guaranty Co-, has been financed entirely with intermountain capital, and is one of the soundest and most progressive financial institutions in the west. I r, |