East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-28
Files Petition and Affidavits for Set
ting Aside Judgement in Famous
Fight For Estate.
NAMES ILLEGALLY USED
New Sensation Sprung In Famous
Case-Heirs Claim DIR. Watts Had
No Authority TO Connect Them
With Case-NIrs. Warner Has Let
tiers of DIR. Watts.

Petitioning the supreme court OF
the state to reopen the case Of Gym
thia Brophy ct al VS.. Mabel Young
Warner ct al, to set aside its judg-
ment rendered therein and restore to
her her rights on the ground that
fraud had been practiced upon the
court by DIR. +. d. Watts, his wife,
Nora Watts, ana their attorneys in
falsely pretending that they repre-
sented certain other heirs-at-law of
the ]. w. Young estate Mrs. Warner
this afternoon sprang her latest sem
sation in the long drawn out fight.
Supporting her charge that no au-
thority was had for making certain
heirs parties TO the proceedings
against her, Mrs. Warner filed affi-
davits from six of the heirs denying
in the estate TO any person or had
given any person authority to repre-
sent them in any case pertaining to
the Young estate.
Mrs Warner also claims that in due
time she will have similar affidavits
from other heirs and she also claims
to have now in her possession certain
letters from these heirs and certain
letters written by DR.. Watts to these
heirs, all of which she believes will
substantiate her charge that fraud
has been practiced against her and
against the courts.
Six Affidavits.
Her petition was filed this after
noon with Lee Moorhouse, deputy
clerk of the supreme court and, at
tached to 1t as Exhibit A. were six
affidavits. The petition cites that
when the contest was tried before
Judge Bean in the local circuit court,
the decision upheld her will and that
afterward the supreme court reversed
this decision She further cites that
the action of the supreme court was
based upon a suspicion of forgery but
that she has since been tried and ac-
quilted by a jury OF her peers. Also
she charges that Richard, Samuel,
John and James w. Peters, nephews
of the deceased j. w Young, Agnes
Jones. a niece, and Sarah kittridge'
formerly Sarah Davis, sister, were
made contestants In the case by par
ties who falsely and fraudulently
claimed to represent them and she al
leges that she herself was induced to
act upon this fraudulent represen-
tation so that heretofore she could
not complain to the courts of the
practice.
Deny Giving Authority.
All of the heirs making affidavits
are residents of Michigan. Those OF
Richard Peters and Mrs. Agnes Jones
simply state that they have never
sold or contracted to sell to any per-
son their claim in the estate of j
w. Young and have never given any
person power or authority to act a.
their attorney or agent In any mat
ter pertaining to the estate. That OF
Sarah Kittridge goes farther anc
states explicitly that she had never
given to DR., f. ID. Watts the power
or authority to act as her attorne!
nor to any other person. Samue
Peters and John Peters make sub
stantially the same deposition but in
clude the statement that DR. Watt
in June, 1903, visited them In per
son and requested them to release al
interest in the estate to Nora Watts
his wife. but that they refused to 81
do. James w. Young declares tn
same proposal was made to him. tina
he stated that he would not act with
out the consent of his brothers an
sisters and that finally they had no
titled the law firm of Harris & Reu
psepgar of Payne CITY, Mich, wit