Show A Big Award Sustained WASHINGTON May 13The supreme court today in an opinion by Justice Bradley Brad-ley awarded the executor of the will of Myra Clark Gains the sum of 5C7000 against the city of New Orleans for the use of property sold by the city but recovered by Mrs Gains after long litigation The judgment of the lower court awarding the executor 1300000 for the use of unimproved unim-proved property sold by the city was not concurred in The case has probably been the most interesting in-teresting hardest contested and most prolonged pro-longed known to the judicial history of this country The first suit in the case brought by Mrs Gaines then wife of General Whitney in 1S34 and since that time decision has followed fol-lowed decision in regard to it The first suit sought to recover what was known theEvariste Blanc tract in New Orleans Blanc bought the tract for about four hundred dollars from the executors of General Daniel Clark a prominent citizen citi-zen of New Orleans He sold it and some other land to the city of New Orleans The grounds on which Mrs Gaines set up her claim were that she was the child of General Clark by a secret marriage between him and Zielinne Carriere and that General Clark had left a later will than the one under which the property was sold This secret marriage formed the axis on which the litigation revolved and the case was fought with bitterness by both sides It was not until a few years before tho war that Mrs Gaines was finally declared to be the legitimate child as well as lawful heir of General Clark Even then the city of New Orleans did not surrender and after the war Mrs Gaines was compelled to bring suit for damages in the circuit court of the United States for Louisiana district which gave judgment in her favor for 19251X17 and it is on appeal from this judgment that the ease was decided de-cided The present case it is generally conceded exhausts all the resources of the law and is regarded as a final settlement of the litigation Mrs Gaines fighting to the very last for her rights is dead and so it is believed are all her immediate re atives except her daughterinlaw Hattie Li Pitney in whose name as admmistrix of the estate of Mrs Gaines the case stands on the court docket |