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Show 5 MEN'S WILLS. OP peW of Tbem Have Escaped I Contested By Dissatis- fiod Relatives. 0 I, 0 m YOEZ RECORDS. u 'orismg Lawyer Laughs at the u jio Writes His Will Devoid f Legal Technicalities. is ; the last dozen years very few Jjj le by wealthy people dying in k city have been left uncon-here uncon-here are, however, two shining t, ffhere the bequests of the dead D1 m have been carried out. One ! J of William H. Vanderbilt ,tber that of Miss Catherine L. " Tanderbilt had the experience 'n had gathered years before in 1 fight which was made over his ,f6 will, and which brought the It family and its early history ouslyinto public notice. Miss u happy m tne faot tnat tlie Jready enjoyed by her legal le the alienation of her millions 0f comparatively small mo-ihe, mo-ihe, however, like Mr. Vander-fd Vander-fd no pains to make the terms jtamentary instrument so brass d iron clad that a contest before lgate would prove unremunera- Surrogate Rollins retired from statement of the business done I,jS incumbency showed that D wills had been the subjects of efore him, many of which had long and expensive litigation, in some instances almost beg-t beg-t estate. One of the great and nj causes which tend toward (sting of wills is the provision wso this state which assures ivyers in the case large fees and es and pay them out of the prop-ther prop-ther they win or lose, i j, iilden's oeeat bequest. fact that very few persons of alth succeed in disposing of their by will in a manner that meets lirenients of the laws, or that Id the keen scrutiny of the legal I of dissatisfied relatives. It is It most of tho contests made, l; by the heirs of wealthy men lien, are based upon the flimsiest land solely with the hope that t for tlie whole or the greater lev may secure for themselves a Lands by compromise. That tho lor contest are usually of a char-jhich char-jhich unfits them for close judicial lation is made evident from the I of the 400 contests begun before Ite Rollins scarcely 50 were sus- Iprising lawyers laugh at men and who sit down and, in words de-I de-I legal technicalities, write their Ills ia their own way. Yet the I show that this sort of will is the lirdest to break. The lawyers Ives are not infallible in will 1 not even the greatest of them, long and successful career as a L lawyer, Samuel J. Tilden drew Is of Bcorcs of his clients, and it 4a record that any of them ever was I When he was to make his own d to his assistance a counselor no Intent than himself Mr. James ler, Together they prepared the Int, which, besides other provi-Ivas provi-Ivas to provide $4,000,000 abso-Bor abso-Bor the endowment of a great free I Well, the case will in all prob-Iturnish prob-Iturnish the most conspicuous ex-lof ex-lof failure to carry out one's intends inten-ds FAMOUS RECENT CONTESTS. In James Stokes died a few years I left an estate estimated to be I at least $10,000,000. Ho was r in his grave when the fight over Iperty began, and it went on with Ime details for months. By and lwasan adjournment, and the ltas substantially settled out of I Tho lawyers must have had a lion amongst them after the bat-1 bat-1 ended. f Hoyt had gathered a big fortune I lie himself was gathered to his P.. He died worth, about $12,000,-m $12,000,-m the monument that was to mark PS place was unbuilt' for -years, s were too busy contesting the isof his .will, and trying, each Mo get a bigger share of the wan tlie dead man had decided touklhave. .' nHammersley's $3,500,000 and the '"Inch he left it by will was an-"uitful an-"uitful source for litigation. The ts and tumbles that character-!CJ3emadeitoneof character-!CJ3emadeitoneof the most in-on in-on record, and the end is not now and then his widow, at 11 w Duchess of Marlborough, ap-'oe ap-'oe courts for more money out Sate, aud though she sometimes a what sbe asks, she is occaeion-fused. occaeion-fused. '( Mrs. Sarah Bun-, who, ,oeuepartedfrom earthly realms, W to kave all of her $5,000,000 She doubtless thought she cverythiB- in :s? wiu 80 that could arise, yet the grass was on her grave before a crowd of 8 and relatives were fighting 4P(u0Perty- this case' 33 iD ' tno others, tho testimony de-'tories de-'tories about the inner familv W dead that the world would Heard and never have laughed , Jf the tight over the millions. |