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Photograph article dated January 7, 1950 partially reads, "'All this I'm building for you.' Those were the words William S. Hart, cowboy screen idol of yesteryear, said to his son, William S. Hart Jr., when the latter first visited the famous Horseshoe Ranch on a high hill overlooking Newhall and the Valley. Young Hart, obviously nervous and tired from long night hours of preparing for his trial to break the will left by his sire and completely disinheriting him, was on the witness stand almost all day yesterday. In his efforts to establish that Hart Sr. was unduly influenced by other persons and not in a competent state of mind at the time he made the will, the son began a lengthy disclosure on his earliest recollections of time spent with his father." Pictured is a man identified as Blas Rivas, Valleyite on jury.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Hart, William S.--(William Surrey),--1864-1946 Hart, William S.--(William Surrey),--1864-1946--Family Decedents' estates--California--Los Angeles Disinheritance--California--Los Angeles Ranches--California--Los Angeles Jurors--California--Los Angeles Wills--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Encino (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs Portrait photographs
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