The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-18
By MICHAEL F. DACEY, International News Service Staff

By 1lCHAEIL DACEY,
 International News Service Staff
 Correspondent.
 Denver, Aug; 1s-Control of an estate valued at .s5.0oo,0oO will be at ties ever staged in the Rocky Noun tain region, when the suit to oust Father David T. O'Dwyer as trustee for the fortune of Mrs. Margery Yer ner Reed Mayo begins in District Court here.
 This suit, filed by c. c. Hamlin, Colorado Springs attorney, in behalf of Mrs. Mayo, daughter of the late Werner Reed, mu1ti-millionaire oil magnate, charges that the provisions of an ante-nuptial agreement signed by Mrs. Mayo fifteen minutes before her marriage to Paul Thodburn Mayo, ''are improvident, unconscionable and inequitahle,'' and declares that Mrs. Mayo twas induced to sign them un- der stress and undue influence"
 '.If this trust fund is allowed to stahd,'' the complaint sets forth, Mrs. Mayo will be stripped and divested of her property rights fraudu1ently and without due consideration.
 The suit is brought to dissolve a. trust fund of approximately $5,000,00 that was Mrs. Mayo's. share of her wealthy fathers fortune
 Originated in Good Faith.
 According to Mrs. Werner z. Reed, who, with Father O'Dwyer and Mrs. Mayo's two brothers and her husband is named as a co-defendant in the
 
 good faith for the protection of Mrs. Mayo.
 of Mrs. Mayo, declared in an author ized statement, .'I thought I was act ing for Margery's best interests, but have come to see that was mistaken and that I acted hastily and without due understanding Of the erect or the trust she created. My one desire now is to right any wrong that may have been done her"
 Mrs. Reed denies that the suit is any indication of lack of harmony in the Reed family.
 According to charges made in the suit, Mrs. Mayo was presented with the sstrust agreement for her sigma ture fifteen minutes before her we'd ding, with guests arriving for what was the social event of the season two years ago and before she was fully attired for the ceremony.
 The ante-nuptia1 agreement, the suit charges, was signed ito gain her mothers consent to her marriage to comparative stranger" Mrs. Mayo declaring she thought it necessary to sign the agreement in order to be married.
 Placed O'Dwyer in Control.
 The agreement not only placed Father O'Dwyer in complete and abso- iute control of Mrs. Mayo's fortune the suit sets forth, but provided that Mayo renounce all claim to his brides huge fortune.
 In the agreement Mrs. Werner z. Reed consented to the marriage of her daughter and agreed to create a S1O0,0OO trust fund from which her son-in-law, Mayo, should receive $3,O00 a year during the continuance of the marriage relation and for the balance of his life in case of Mrs. Mayo's death. Mayo was pledged to forever renounce 'tau and every in terest and right in the estate of his wife or in the estate of Mrs. Reed, GOT of any of the issue of said mar riage."
 Mrs. Mayo charges that Father O'Dwyer first suggested the making of a trust covering plaintiffs property and income and placing it beyond her control and encouraged the plaintiff to sign the same without warning her as to its effect upon her property, property rights, income and upon her future welfare and happiness as in good conscience he should have done."
 Falls in Provisions.
 Mrs. Mayo further alleged that no provision for the education or sup port of any possible issue of her mar riage was made in the agreement.
 Under the terms of the ante-nuptfal agreement, the complaint alleges, power to sell, pledge or otherwise dis pose of' her property and that he is not under bond. It also charged that Father O'Dwyer has refused to give an accounting of the estates money.
 A copy of the terms of the trust shows that Father O'Dwyer was to receive 5000 per annum as trustee.
 Father O'Dwyer, in announcing that he would fight the suit to dissolve the trust, declared that he has pro- tected the interests of the Mayo estate and says that his refusal to concur in an option of the entire Reed family fortune, given to Carl Pforzheimer, a New York broker, for $24,000,00C is the cause of the suit
 Father O'Dwyer declares the Reed fortune is worth far in excess of the $24,O00,00.
 It is expected that in his answer to the complaint, the priest will contend that the trust fund is legal and not subject to modification and that he will strongly defend his administra- ton of the trust. Father O'Dwyer is represented by Gerald Hughes, a widely-known attorney, of this city.
 O'Dwyer~ Sought as Trustee.
 In statement issued by Attorney Hughes, it was declared that Father O'Dwyer had been requested in writ ing to accept the trusteeship by both Mrs. Mayo and her mother, Mrs. Reed.
 ''The real purpose of the suit to dis solve the trust,' Father ODwyer said, Sis not to give Mrs. Mayo control of her fortune, but to comply with the terms of an option given by the Reed family to a New York broker for the sale of all the estates holdings, which I, as trustee, decline to accept. In carrying out the obligation imposed upon me I could not see that it was to the advantage of the trust to join in the Pforzheimer contract
 The Reed family is widely known in business and social circles not only in the leading centers of the United States but in numerous European capitals. The late Werner z. Reed accumulated most of his vast fortune in wyoming oils, and the estate com prises valuable holdings in many oil corporations.
 Father O'Dwyer, past of St. Pat o~l Cor%sr,onf