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Unusual Case: Decision Deferred In Suit Where Child Was Willed to Uncle. Judge Carleton T. Woodring deferred decision yesterday after hearing testimony in an action in Northampton County court in which a Conyingham man seeks custody of his six-year-old niece under the terms of the will of his brother. In deferring his decision. Judge Woodring suggested that the parties reach an amicable decision if possible. Oscar Mertz, 46, a telephone company supervising construction foreman, testified that his brother had told him that he wanted him to care for the child if the brother should die. Against Second Wife. The custody action was brought against Myrtle Beers Mertz, Beersville, second wife of the father of the child, Harold E. Mertz. The girl, Lucinda Mae Mertz, is the daughter of the late Harold Mertz's first wife, the former Helen Hilliard, who died in 1949. Harold and Myrtle Mertz were married April 12, 1952. He died April 13, 1953. The will was made in 1949 when Harold Mertz was a resident of Martins Creek. Oscar Mertz and his wife testified they have a modern apartment in Conyingham, convenient to schools and churches. They can tend they can care for the child better than Myrtle Mertz. but say they have no objection to her associating with the child or her character. Myrtle Mertz testified she has an interest in an estate and some money in a bank, but is not employed. She lives in a six-room house with all improvements, she said, and would do her utmost to give Lucinda mother-like care

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