Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-19
GUY BOLTON ESTATE
IS IN CONTROVERSY
BEFORE The COURTS
MOTHER CLAIMS HER SONS Wip.
oW Is NOT A LEGAL HEIR 70
PROPERTY.

Mandan News: Another interest.
ing case has grown out of the recent
Shields shoot.fest, which cost Guy
Bolton his life, and that Is the Ques.
ton whether Mrs. Myrtle Bolton was
the legal wife OF the deceased. The
issue q recently argued before the
probate judge Of Burleigh county, in
CONGESTION with settling Bottoms es-
tate, Attorney William LANCER Of
this city representing Mrs. Bolton:
the decision waS u~nfavorable to her,
and Mr.. LANCER has appealed the
case to the district court. The facts
OF thecase are as given below.
Mrs. George Upright OF Bismarck.
mother Of the late Guy Bolton. ap-
piled for letters of administration in
the matter Of the estate Of her de-
ceased son, alleging to be his only
legal heir. Myrtle Bolton also asked
to be appointed administrative alleg-
Ing to be the wife Of the late Guy
Bolton. The county judge after hear
ing the evidence abduced by bothpar-
ties, decided in favor Of Mrs. Up.
right.
d During the hearing 1t was brought
out that Myrtle Bolton married a
man named Reynolds in Iowa, In 1902.
She lived with him four years, and
then he deserted her. Without Sc
curing a divorce she married another
man named Wright, early in 1911.
Evidently their welded life was not
agreeable lor In April, 1911, she ap-
piled for a divorce frob Wright,
which was granted August 20, 1912.
Juno 10, 1912, two months before
her divorce vas granted, she married
Guy Bolton in this city, she then bear.
ing the name of Myrtle Reynolds. 1t
seems. therefore. that she had at the
time two husbands living from whom
she had not been legally separated.
Attorney VIM. LANCER Of Biting
& LANCER, who is the attorney for
Mrs. Bolton, argued that the laws OF
North Dakota provide where a wom-
an has been living apart from her
husband for five years, and believes
Inn: to be dead. she may re!marry
without the tormality Of a divorce. His
contention is that five years had not
elapsed between the time she desert.
ed Reynolds and married Wright, to
whom her marriage was, in fact, ii.
legal, but that her marriage to Guy
Bolton, over a year later, was valid
for the reason that the five years
statutory time had passed since the
marriage to Reynolds.
Mr.. LANCER has appealed from the
decision of the probate judge to the
district co.rt, and as the issue has
never been tested the case will be
watched with interest. In the mean.
time if this new principle is not es-
tablished it looks as though Mrs.
Bolton might be up against a bigamy
charge, and unpleasant developments
may result. s. ..,g
The estate of Guy Bolton is quite
large, consisting Of life insurance.
horses anod other personal property
in addition to some real estate. From
all appearances the settling Of the
estate will mean a long drawn out
battle through the courts.
SEVERAL MAVvILLiTEs HERE.
Mayvillc Tribune: Andrew An.
!; derscn left for his home at Bismarck
Saturday after spending the week
! with relatives here and at Northwood,
! Mr.. Anderson Is in the mercantile
| business IN Bismarck with his father
in.law. He reports business good on
| the slope this fal! and crops large.
There + several exMayvillites at
Bismarck besides himself. Roy Rob
inson is bookkeeping for the largest
mercantile establishment in the city.
Alec Murray lives there and Is a COM
mercial traveller. Will Anderson is
holding down a job in the secretary of