Show COURT CONVENES HERE CASES SET FOR TWO WEEKS TO COR COME judge bates to come in next week proceedings in matter of estate of sidney C goddard set aside calendar settings given the district court convened here 0 on n tue tuesday day at 2 tor for the regular march term with judge T H burton on the bench and other officers and attaches of the court present A long calendar cale udar of cases awaited action in several of which judge burton was disqualified or preferred not to act so he made it known at the opening of 0 court that he had arranged for judge N J bates to come from richfield to hear them several default and ex parte matters were disposed of during tuesday afternoon and wednesday and settings of all cases which are likely to be tried this term some others were continued for the term or stricken from the calendar or dismissed and then the ilie court recessed until monday morning when judge bates to Is expected to be here in the mean meantime tinte judge burton went to fillmore to open court tor for the disposal disi Kisal of some cases there and then he will go into judge baless district while the latter Is 1 here several criminal cases were dismissed tor for one reason or another two boys charged with stealing an all automobile auto moble were sentenced to the state penitentiary and a third charged with wife desertion was given sin similar lilar sentence but was paroled under rigid conditions and placed in custody of the sheriff disposition of all cases or the calendar Is recorded in order in which they appeared on said calendar on another page of this issue the judges order setting aside all the proceedings in connection with the trial before grover A giles acting under stipulation of i attorneys in the matter ma ater of the estate of sidney C goddard will make necessary a reheat ang oi of the matter involved the matter was before the court on a demurrer of emily grant as administratrix of 0 the estate to a petition of hannah alannah jolly asking that the order admitting decease ds will to probate be set aside the demurrer was overruled and then the court entered its order setting aside all proceedings and orders of the said grover A giles in admitting the will to probate and requiring the administratrix to account tor for all property which has come into her po possession poses session slon as administratrix istra trix of said estate reviewing briefly the history ot of I 1 the case it appears that sidney C goddard who had no family ot of hla his own attempted to dispose of hla his property by will making mrs grant the administratrix and as we recall it the chiel chief beneficiary mrs jolley a sister of 0 the deceased filed protest against the wills being admitted to probate for some reason the attorneys representing the interested parties stipulated that the protest might b be e heard before grover A giles instead of 0 judge eurton burton and without an order from judge burton mr air giles came here and spent several days here trying the matter before a jury and finally on oil the jurys findings ordering that the will be admitted to probate then mrs airs jolley through her counsel tiled filed petition to have the proceedings by judge jiles set aside and judge burtons bartons Bur tons order of yesterday Is the result reasons for his action are given in the order extracts of which follow it further being made to appear from said petition and the records and tiles files in these proceedings that the hearings held by ver giles as judge pro tempore was after the court had adjourned tor for the term and after the jury which bad been regularly em paneled had been discharged and that no jury had been summoned by the court tor for said proceedings as is required by law and it further appearing that no order had been entered by the court appointing the said grover A giles as judge pro tempore and that said cause had not been set down for or trial by the court to be tried by a jury and it appearing that the pretended sum of a jury and pretended trial ot of the issues raised by protest ot of the will tendered tor for probate was all done without an order of the court the ourt court hereby orders that all so taken was without authority of law and that said grover A giles had no jurisdiction to proceed in said matter and that the orders so made by said grover A giles are void and are arc now by the court set aside the courts action to date on all cases on the calendar together with the attorneys in each case are as follows continued to page five lot |