1621-160143_0755

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value of $400,000.00 or the value of
more than $160,000.00, and they deny
thay any property was transferred or set
over to said John Taylor in pretence of
payment of said claim, or that the estate
of said testator was thereby fradulently
diminished or the plaintiff or other alleged
co-beneficiaries defrauded of any property
or in any sum or value.

And these defendants further answering
allege that the said Brigham Young
deceased, for as many years prior to his death,
was the President and Trustee-in-Trust of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, and as such had at various times
taken the titles to various parcels of the
real estate described in the complaint
and therein alleged to have been conveyed
to said John Taylor in payment of the
aforesaid claim, but the titles to such
properties were specifically held in trust
by the testator in his life time, and the
properties had been possessed, improved, and
used by said Church, and were notoriously
the property thereof, and did not come
to the possession of these defendants as
assets of the estate of the testator, and these
defendants solely, as a matter of justice