Salt Lake Herald | 1898-07-02 | Page 1 | Litigation Comes High

LITIGATION COMES HIGH I Fair Heirs Agreed t Pay to Legal i Firms 8350000 Each San Francisco July ITwo contracts I Involving the payment of the largest Individual fees for legal services ever paid in California have been fed for record in this city The contracts in question are between Theresa A Oel richs and Virginia Fair daughters of the late James G Fair and the legal firms of Lloyd Wood and Garber Bishop Wheeler The Indentures call for the payment to each of the firms of 5 per cent of the portions of the ladies named of the estate of James G Fair This aggregates about 350000 to be paid I each of the firms provided the trust will be declared invalid In the event a contrary action results 5 per cent of the income of the property shall be paid to the attorneys for five years after the decree of distribution The trust will having been declared becomes valid the inoperative first proviso The of the percentage contract I of the income however will be paid What this sum amounts to is unknown but it is considerable I