The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-22
MRS. TINGLEY HAS
GAINED A POINT

san Diego, Cal, Oct. 22-Judge w.
x. Guy in the superior court yester-
day sustained the demurrer OF Kath-
crime Tingley. head of the Universal
Brotherhood and Philosophical socis
ETY. al Point Iona, to the contest
filed by George l.. Patterson OF New
castle, Pa. to the will of his mother,
Mrs. Harriet Patterson Thurston.
Mrs Tingley scored a victory Ia the
first proceedings I'm the contest of
the will Of Mrs. Thurston, involving
an estate valued AT S2j0,000 and Of
which Mrs. Tingley was named resi-
duery legatee The petitioner was
given - days in which to file an
amended complaint.
The court held in effect that not
sufficient cause was shown for the
action brought by Patterson. who ell
legged undue influence on the part or
Mrs. Tingley over his mother Mrs.
ThurSton was the wife of Clark Thur
ston, member OF Mrs. Tingley5s cab
met. and the mother of Mrs. Julia p.
Quinn. who, il was erroneously stat
cd in a dispatch on September 80,
had been released by order of court
''pAt 'Ai' 'i9''IN u WI III SlfN. .
Mrs. Quinn il appears, never was In
the custody Of Mrs. Tingley.
DR., DORM F. Wood. senior physician
ar the Point Iona homestead. testi-
fled Mt the hearing that according 10
her. Mrs. Quinn for some years prior
TO having been brought to California.
had been in several sanltarIums and It
was with the hope of Il possible cure,
that she had placed her under his care
Mrs. Quinn was declared an in
competent in the superior court in
San Diego in 1905, and her mother
was appointed as guardian OF her per-
son and estate. \ year later her
mother married Clark Thurston
Mrs. Thurston placed her daughter
under the care of DR. Wood as a pri-
Tate patient and with nurse. Mrs.
Quinn occupied a place a mile from
the Point Iona homestead purchased
by Mrs ThurSton, In order TO have her
daughter near her.
Mrs. ThurSton died at Newburyport.
Mass about three months ago Mrs.
Quinn remained under the care CT
DR.. Wood, but was permitted to oc.
cupy the home of her mother on the
ttNuiih VI tilt iolllsSNedur IedSeu Dy
Mrs. ThurstOn, from Mrs Tingley.
At the time that Patterson, Mrs.
Quinn's brother, filed his contets to
the VIII OF his mother, he also brought
habeas corpus proceedings to get his
sister whom he alleged he had not
been allowed to see alone or permit
ted to1aEc her outside OF the home
stead grounds
Judge Lewis in rendering his de
cision in the matter, held that the
testimony showed that Mrs Quinn
was being restrained OF her liberty,
in the sense that she could not do or
go as she pleased. that her mother.
her legal guardian, being dead She
had now no guardian with authority
OF law 10 restrain her. therefore the
restraint she was under was not legal
The court said: There Is nothing
III this case to indicate 10 me that
DR.. Wood Is the person authorized b.
law To detain Mrs. Quinn, nor the
other parties mentioned, ii they have
any part in It.
No evidence was introduced tend
rug to show that Mrs. Tingley had any
thing to do with the alleged restraint
OF Mrs. Quinn or had restrained her.
DR. Wood testified that he had used
cnIy such precautionary measures aG
any reputable physician would have
done in a case such as Mrs Quinn