Show the levy grover case wednesdays salt lake tribune abune says i disposition of the park city estate 1 0 of f dong ling hing chinese laundryman Is probably finally settled by a decision of c the utah supreme court handed down I 1 mondy monday under unde the decision the solo sole beneficiary is the son of the deceased dong team chew 1 levey sole beneficiary under a purported will takes nothing the father was commonly known in park city as D grover or P D L H D grover and the son as joe grover the estate was largely some sixty or seventy houses in park city and worth according to the appraisers about the parent was waa san francisco born of chinese parents lie iio went twice to china married three women and had several children lie he attempted at various times to bring four sons soils into the united states and was twice successful he returned returned the he last time fro from in china in 1902 and went to park city where lie had previously lived he died in february 1926 aged 63 i the son joe grover was canton born by D grovers gravers third wile wife it was fo found uni I 1 by united states immigration officials 0 et at seattle who conducted an investigation at the time that the lad was admitted when 15 years ot of age I 1 mrs levey conducted EL a boarding house ot at paik faik city where her husband william levey was night watchman at a mine the levees I aveys acted as financial advisers adviser of the elder grover and their relations with him were amicable the court finds until about 1917 or 1918 when grover filed fulcd suit cult against william levey on the allegation that his signature had bad been pro J cured to a note for 2500 when as a matter or of fact act he owed levey only about 1000 the chinese pleaded ignorance of the english language as written and won the case c a se to in court at t the time e ot grovers death in 1926 ahe mrs levey beym h had ad returned to her native country ot of ireland A year later la in march 1927 she presented the purported will in which she was named as executrix and 1 solo beneficiary at the same time she renounced the right ot of executrix and asked tor for the appointment ot of the central trust company which brought the present suit against joe grover who had been acting as administrator ot of the elder grovers estate in the meantime while the will she presented was un dated mrs levey said eald it had been signed and n 1 l witnessed in 1919 or 1920 one of t the witnesses E fitzpatrick was at that time dead the me other barnard duffy had returned to ireland affidavits Affidavit a were presented at the trial which appeared to cast some doubt on whether these men had ever witnessed the signature or it if they had knew at the time that it was a wl will 11 the case was tried before judge W M mccrea and the supreme court refuses to his findings of tact fact or on any important point his rulings the decision Is by justice W H folland his colleagues concurring when this case was commenced in the district court roger I 1 mcdonough and attorney A B R barnes bames of salt lake represented joe grover end and won a decision from judge mccrea when attorney mcdonough was elected district judge his brother attorney bartly G mcdonough took over the case defending the grover estate in the appeal to the supreme court with the result that judge macreas Mc decision was sustained as given above |