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Show COLLEGES WIN BEQUEST. Eayerweather Will Case Decided Against Widow and Nieces. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. The case known as the Fayerweather will rase was decided- by the Supreme court of the United States today In favor of ! the colleges. ! Tho case involved a bequest of about S2.C00.000, made to twenty different colleges by the late Daniel G. Fayerweather, Fayer-weather, a leather merchant of New York, who died in 1S90. The will was attacked by Mr. Fayerwcather's widow and two nieces, fraud being charged. I The case has been pending in the courts for many years, and has been before the Supreme court on several occasions. The last decision on it was rendered by the circuit court of the Southern district of New York nnd .vas fdyorable to the colleges. 'The heirs then appealed to the Supreme Su-preme court, but the opinion of today aflitmcd the finding of the Circuit coujt- The opinion of the court was delivered by Justice Brewer and held that the case had been previously adjudicated. ad-judicated. The beneficiary colleges are Bowdoln, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Wes-leyan, Wes-leyan, Yale, Columbia, Union Theological,- Hamilton, Rochester, Cornell. La Fayette, Lincoln, Virginia, Hampton, Maryvllle, Marietta, Adclbert, Wabash and Park. |