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Show Contest Over $ 1 60,000,000 Leiter Estate -I Has Arrayed Brother Against Sister in Court ' '.' - - v --s'i, I V - I i i On left la shown Lady Cynthia Cursor), now Lady Meeeley? th Countess of Suffolk (right) was formsrly Nanoy Latter. Center, at top, is Joseph Letter, one of th principal figures In tha litigation. Below to tho Marqoia Curs on, prominent in British politico for many yoara. - CHlCAtX). Aug. 4 'By SKA 8er vice). Ooldr In high place and low, the whlaper of Ita shimmering name spells sa Irresistible magic to man. It sets, tha ties of blood. to raught. Such has been the history of t tiled and wealthy family disagreement eatabliahed In the case of the Jay Gould heirs, which once mere' re- feat a Itself hi-re In the legal con-roversy con-roversy over the millions left by the pioneer merchant, Levi Z. Leiter. Tha stake Involved ta tha Teiter suit, now pending, where brother is arraigned agalaat atster and othr branches of the Loiter houae mora I or leas at each other's throats, are estimated at from 100.00a.ti00 upward. up-ward. OKCIRIOff KX FXTEO SOOX. Question aa to tha rights to tho vast sura was ralaed In the lsal action now awaiting settlement la the superior court of Cook county. Mr. Nancy Lathrop Lelther Campbell, Camp-bell, daughter of Loiter, l-ai allied herself with her brother, Joseph Leiter, sgalnat their afster: Lady Marguerite Hyde, counteea of Buffi Buf-fi Ik. and Marquis Oeorge Kathanltl i Cur son. British minister of foreign affairs, who seek on accounting of Letter's stewardship and his removal re-moval aa trust so of tho estate of the elder Leiter. Marquis Curion Joined In Lady Martuerltp'e suit In behalf Of hla three daughters, grandchildren of Leiter. Mm. Campbell denies her slater's charges In an answer to the suit, countering with ths elslm "that Juntph Lvlter haa faithfully, efficiently and unaelflahly discharged dis-charged hla duties sa truateo, and hv his untiring efforts has procured an annual income vastly In excess of that which would, ha re been realised real-ised had the eatato Been deprived of h'a aervicea." Tt'a another caa of foreign mar-r mar-r is rre and millionaires children. The parallel between the Oould snd Letter cases begins In the Involvement In-volvement of American heiresses msrrled to foreign aoblemen. In each caao a brother of a plaintiff waa trustee of the fattier eatato and charged with mismanagement. NO AMERfCARS EBEFITVD. ' And to the average elttsen the controversy dors not moan on cent of money. Whatever the decision of the court, the contested dollara will remain la the same family, resulting re-sulting In more or leas millions to tho aame affluent pooaoeaors. When Curaon brought his plea he not only aakad tu havo Leiter removed as trustee, but furthermore sought to have forfeited from his rosaeaalon a tract of IUInola coal aad aald to be worth from 91,00s.-(IM 91,00s.-(IM to U,000.00. Th mines were left to Joseph Loiter under conditions which ths Curaon heirs claim asver wers compiled com-piled with. El'KOFK GETS MONET. Tho Curaon heirs are the Ladles Irene and Alexandra Curson and their altaer, Lady Cynthia Moailey. Kven under praaent condltlona much of thetr income goea acroaa to them from the American property left by I their American grandfather. ! In the case of the Ootild estate, tteorgv Jay Qould waa attacked In his position ss trustee by his brothers broth-ers and sisters. Including Anna Oould, ths Duchess da Talleyrand. They aeeerted that he had coat the truat eatato 138.000.000 by mismanagement misman-agement aad had him ouatod. Whether that phase of history wilt develop In the new csas Is tho subject of speculation by the moneyed mon-eyed and money isee alike who help-! help-! ed build up the Leiter wealth by i hue In a; merchandise from tho fam-' fam-' tiya atoro. |