The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-30
Woman Whom Man Intended to
Make Wife and Heir Cannot
Share i'm Estate.
LETTER OF INTENTIONS
IS BARRED AS WILL
Pathetic Story of the Love of
john jensOn and Millie
Green Barred.

4 story of love and pathos, such as
is contained in tho evidence IN the
case of Millie Green, appellant, VS..
Jens Jensen. respondent, rarely ever
finds its way into the records of the
supreme court. The story in part of the
love Of John Jensen. merchant at
Dragon, Utah, for his fancce, Miss Mil
lie Green of Nernal and their plans
for the consummation of their love by
marriage in the spring of 1909, is told in
n letter written by Jensen 10 Miss
Green Just SIX days PRIOR TO his sudden
death. In that letter he told her that
he intended TO make her his legal heir,
whether no died before they were mar
ried or not, Continuing. the letter said:
~ don t expect 10 die but am just
telling you what | mcan.'
The letter was written January %,
1909, and it contained detailed arrange
ments for the marriage in the early
spring of that year, and tho couple g
plans February following, Jensen
died suddenly, and Miss Green filed a
petition in the probate division Of the
district court in Uintah county, ask
ing that the letter be admitted TO pro
bate as the Inst VIII and testament
OF her dead sweetheart.
Nephew Protests.
Jens Jensen, nephew Of the dc
ceased, hled protest against the letter
being admitted as the viii of his uncle
and the lower court upheld his protest
and decided that the letter could not
be considered as Will at all. Miss
Green then appealed to the supreme
court, and that court IN an opinion
given Friday, affirmed the Judgment of
Tho lporGr b,,a Nice
off from any participation in the cs-
tate Of her lover.
The letter, which was sought to be
filed as the will of Jensen, appears in
full in the records of the case, on file
IN the supreme court, and is as follows:
Dragon. Utah. ian IS. '09.
My Dear Mille--I had Just written a
letter 10 YOU when l received your most
Interesting letter | ever got from you.
| am glad to hear that you favor our
union this spring. Yes. my dear Niliic
we VIII try To get our union sealed as
] want you here 10 comfort me and be
a helpmate 10 me. and that We both
may be benefited and blessed CThis Is
a kissD / am surprised 10 SEQ your
thoughts correspond with mine. You
need not worry about your travel across
the country. ! viii come and get you,
and We Will go right on 10 Salt Lake
and back 10 Dragon and never mind the
time. | appreciate your sentiments and
I am fully in sympathy with them. as /
am with all you propose. but we must
eConomize as much as we can. We are
not milionaircs. and YOU and must live,
and so we Will make things match
much as we can. and when We get well
off then we will spread IT on do you
sccD.
To Make Her His Heir.
Sweet Mile, / do not know " YOU like
this | think Won s. sensible
girl I Will make you my sole heir
whether We get married or not and II
die before you and me are married
will make you my legal heir. but l hope
that | Will enjoy your company and as
sociation before that Now. this Is only
talk. | don't expect TO die. but ! am
were together we could talk all this thing
face to facc-I Will be over there some
time this spring. ] will let YOU know
later, and we will arrange things, We
TO Salt Lake City, but have to see the
stake president about that You Just
keep your ears stiG and trust in the
Lord. Pray for me and Yourself and we
will be all right. Yes. my dear, ] hope
all saloons will he closed and whisky
rnuishcd from the face Of The earth.
You shall not think those postcards Is
OF any consequence. 1t was only TO show
YOU what the store looks like l Will
send you some more to show you Dragon
from different points. We don't want
to stay here all our lives. but We VIII
stay here TIL we can do better or worse.
I like TO make n few dollars and go into
the chicken business.
God bless YOU, my dear Mile.
From your loving JOHN.
Not Disposition.
The supreme court holds that the
letter does not contain a present dis
position of the property of Jensen but
only statement of how he intended
TO dispose Of it. Neither does it men
ton any property intended 10 be be-
quenthed to his sweetheart. Hence,
II cannot be considered as will, and
the decision of the lower court is af-
frmed. Justice Frick wrote the opin-
ion Of the court Chief Justice Straup
and Justice McCarty concurring.
There is no mention in any part OF
the record Of what property Jensen
left, but it appears from the letter
that he was n merchant at Dragon
and probably had considerable property
there.
May Day Ball
At the Odcon. April 30, If Won want