The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-22
SEALING" Is
LEGAL MARRIAGE

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a reversal. So it's in our favor; well,
WELL
One of the children at this point cried
out that they'd have new house MIR.
Hilton continued:
Il don't see how they could have de-
cided that case against US. I went
through the same ceremony. D. H
Wells officiating. as did my wife and
DIR. Park, and il they were not mar
ried, then / never was married. And If
we were not married, then all the men
who were sent to the penitentiary for
unlawful cOhabitatiOn were falsely i'm
prisoned, for the ceremony is the same.
Hilton is Satisfied.
Daniel H. Wells told me all about
the Park affair before 1 married, and
my wife did the same. but didn't care.
1 met my wife as a young man. She
was a young woman. 1t was a case
OF love at first sight. and 1 wanted
her for my wife. l didn't care if she
had been married a hundred times"
Mrs. Hilton took the news quietly,
but with every indication of delight.
AT the suggestion that the decision
might throw q cloud on her maria ge
TO Mir. Hilton, she said:
You know / was only 10 years old,
thing. because he was so much older
than I. When We were separated by
the church divorce he told me. and Mrs.
Wells and others told me that it was
all / required-that L could go ahead
and get married again. believed
them. and did get married. and l had
no idea that the divorce was not legal
until my attorney informed me OF the
facts.
..rTbe-a have tee,, intip,afion of iob-
berry in this matter, but 1 was only
after my rights. and, thanks to my at
torneys, got them"
Attorney n. V. Jones, who worked up
the ease. and was associated with Pow
ers, Straup & Lippman in its progress,
was very wei pleased
Praises Courts Courage.
There is one thing I want to say
said he. and that is this: The case
rested on a purely legal question, and
the court had the courage to pass upon
it on that basis, in the face of popular
prejudice.
Sealing is the form of marriage
practiced by the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints. 1t cannot be any
thing else. Mrs. Hilton was sealed to
DIR. Park. and she is entitled to at least
the statutory interest in the estate. /
am glad TO say she has got il.
Mrs. HlltOn'S claim relates only 10
DR.. Parks real estate This mas been
appraised at about $4,000 Cthe whole
estate being worth about sac 000), and
she viii get one-third of this. As TO
the property which the doctor decided
away during his life. in which Mrs. Hill
ton had no voice. / am yet unprepared
TO speak. 1t is apparent, however, that
the title to that property has been af-
fected by the decision"
said Judge Powers. who made one of
the principal arguments before the SUI
preme court: Il expected nothing else.
The parties were married The law
recognized only one marriage. and
knows nothing about sealing. She was
his wife. and that settled it,
Attorney Frank Pierce VINO led the
other side. was disappointed, but took
the defeat philosophically.
We took the stand" said he that
the woman was unconscious and on her
supposed death bed, that the ceremony
gone through with was never intended
as a marriage, but that the sealing
took effect after death The supreme
court says We are wrong We can do
but one thing now-petition for a re-
hearing