The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-30
LOVE LETTER IS
NOT A VALID WILL
Supreme Court Decides That
Written Pledge Is Not
Specific Enough.
FIANCEE CLAIMS ESTATE.
MISSIVE CONTAINING PROMISE
OF PROPERTY IS QUOTED.

love letter promising ali OF
ones earthly possessions TO the woman
soon to be taken as a bride is not a
viii, decides the supreme court in an
opinion handed down yesterday in af-
ftrming Judge John z. Booth of the
fourth district court in the contest of
the will of John Jensen. who died at
Dragon last year.
The suit came before the supreme
court on appeal by Mile Green, fiancee
of Jensen. who filed the love letter for
probate and was denied this right. She
claimed the letter to be the last Will
and testament of Jensen, but Judge
Booth refused to admit il, The action
was directed against Jens Jensen,
brother of the decedent. who was made
administrator Of the estate. Justice ].
y. Friek writes the opinion Of the SUI
preme court, affirming Judge Booth.
and is cOncurred in by Chief Justice ID.
n. Straup and Justice w. NJ. McCarty.
Promise in Letter.
The intention Of Jensen TO later make
Miss Green his beneficiary is set forth
in the letter, written shortly before
the death of Jensen at Dragon, Uintah
county. but this is not held to be a
viii. Excerpts from the letter to Miss
Green read as follows:
JOHN JENSEN & co, DEALERS IN
MINERS AND RANCHERS' SUPPLIES
Dragon. Utah. Jan. 26, 1909.
letter to you when I received your
most interesting letter I ever got from
you. / am glad TO hear that you favor
our union this spring. Yes, my dear
Mile, we viii try to get our union
sealed as soon as we can. l need you
here and I want you here TO comfort
Inc and be a helpmate to me, and that
we both may be benefited and blessed.
(This is q kiss.)
II am surprised to see your thoughts
wit fna a.
worry about your travel across the
country. I Will come and get you. and
we viii go right on to Salt Lake and
back to Dragon and never mind the
reception; we will have Jhat some other
time. / appreciate your sentiments and
J am fully in sympathy with them, as
I am with all you propose, but We must
economic as much as We can. We are
not milliOnaireS. and YOU and l must
live, and so we will make things match
as much as we can, and when we get
we'll off then we win spread 1t on (dO
you see~.
Makes Her Beneficiary.
sweet Mile. I do not know II YOU
like this or not, but 1 think you are a
sensible girl
Il will make you my sole heir
whether we get married or not and if
7 die before you and me are married
I viii make you NY legal heir but
hone that 7 viii enjoy your company
and association before tndt. NOW, TINS
Is only talk. / don't expect TO die, but
] am Just telling you what l mean.
If we were together we could talk all
this thing face to face-I will be over
there some time this spring. / will
let you know later and We will ar
range things. We may get married in
Vernal. and then 60 to salt Lake.
You shall not think that those post
cards is Of any consequence. It was
only TO show you what the store looks
like. I will send YOU some more to
show you Dragon from different points
We don't want to stay here all our
lives, but we will stay here till we can
do better or worse. I like to make q
few dollars and go in the chicken BUSH
ness.
God bless you. my dear Mile.
From your loving John"
The supreme court says that only in
one place was there anything which
might az all be considered as leaving
will and declares that II this had
been the intention Of Jensen. he would
have made some mention of the prop
erty left. The love letter is therefore
discarded as a possible viii and not al
lowed to be probated.