Show SETTLED WITH NELSON NE LS FAMILY F A lit IL Y Ith Fir Fairs WIN Cowe COe 60 into IntI HI t LONG tONG LITIGATION oIt IS rs t U FAU AD WILL rILL WILLM Jf OT M U UL UN L M TORK TV x May It Ui en N Ii of f the ib the be action Mrs r Alice Alke Oel Oelrichs niche richs rl and Mrs br VirgInia brought by Hannah E e mother mather of Mr hire Charles L Fair iao an here today in m the state su in supreme promo preme court c artA A final Judgment ne t was wasI r I In favor ef of the tM d Mr pad and Mrs frs Charted 1 L 14 Fair PaIr were la In an automobile auto accident in tn France ia In 1103 In I a eo issued after the judg jud judgment judt ment t haS hafl been entered the attorney attorneys f Mrs lelson eblon and her ber family made madej it j known that a r settlement satisfactory tor tory to both sides had bad been bean effected Tb announced also allM that by bJ common consent COMent of the tile persons interested ed the theIn sum paid pa in settlement not be bep made public p Suit Between Families The TIle action tion was begun u fa in February lift Ills 11 to In set aside U e the settlement ettJe made at San Ban an Francisco in August J be bt between between tween Mrs 18 Nelson and her family and Mrs Mn and Mrs 18 Vanderbilt sis sin sisters tern ten of Charles Curies U L Fair relative to the distribution of the estates ta of Mr and Mrs In Fair Under this settlement Mrs Nelson received and a members of her herf family f who were plaintiffs with her herin herIn in bI the tile action received smaller ter sums awn varying according to their relation relationship relationship ship chip from sime 1 to at Charles L Fair left an estate valued at about f and it t waa wan main maintained maintained tamed by the Nelsons Nel on that be he died before fore his wife to whom he be had bad willed his entire estate in case she survived him The plaintiffs alleged that they had bad been n induced by fraud fr d and a mis misrepresentations ml representations on the part of the de defendants defendants to t accept the sum paid them and aad that they did not learn until aft afterward afterward afterward erward that Mr Mi Fair died first Mrs Mra and Mm Mrs 11 Vanderbilt maintained that Fair bad had survived his bi wife and that under the provisions of ot his s will wiD the t e property became theirs Byi Was W c During the course of the te action sew sev several evera oral eral era commissions OD were appointed and testimony te was wa taken at the scene of the accident in ID France Prance m hi this city and in San Francisco Much of this testimony was wu conflicting Two French witnesses wit Lucien Man Mas and Alfred J testified in this city that they saw the t accident and an that Mr Fair was WIM killed instantly while lie Mrs Fair Fab Fa lived several minutes These witnesses were ft Q their I return t Paris r because of their tes testimony t tt t and d on charge of tf perjury w aad sentenced te to three i I 1 1 I Ia their tJ statement the t r ys for 1 Mrs Kelson Nelsen say ray they UteJ were re saved moved v to toI toI t I agree a to a settlement b by the J I lug ing nature of the ev eiden in the case cane canet t I the great t expense of 01 the tbt and andI I by the t tact fart that Mrs Nelson Sel oD is j ad adI I van in tB yes years and desired 4 ired to be re relieved of Qt the strain of further fighting ft b un the case caseI I In Is accounting for the th willingness of f I the defendants d to reach a settlement e t the plaintiffs attorneys atte say eay in part partI t I TJi The technical t allegation of ofIn fraud Un In the tiO tf complaint was extremely die dis distasteful tasteful ta to Mm Mrs and Mrs Van Vanderbilt Neither of them had taken tak n nany any personal part In arranging the de dc details deI tails taUs of the San Francisco settlement I and both had Wad presumed that every ever everything everything thing had been done properly erly and to the satisfaction of every ever one con concerned concer t corned ed |