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Show i MOTHER CHURCH I TO GET ESTATE I Of IS. EDDY H ; iNatural Heirs and Christian H Science Trustees in Full H , Agreement With Order H Made by Court. H GENERAL STREETER I f MAKES STATEMENT K Sons Withdraw Allegations H Reflecting Upon Mother H and the Good Faith of H Her Associates. BM - OSTOX, Fob. 7. "Litigation ovor the , II bequest of $3,000,000 made to the B 1 First Church of Christ, Scientist, S I of Boston by 3Irs. Mary Baker G, ff I Eddy, ended today when her nat- ttf ur8l hIrs joined with the trufltees of the 9 I church in proposed decrees entered in B 9 tho several courts involved. K K Coincident with this action, the Masa- II chusotta house concurred this afternoon mt 1 with tho senate in an enabling act which B B permits the mother church to accept and Kg use tho money for the advancement of HM Christian Science as directed by Its BB Four stipulations compose the decreco Bj which wers entered simultaneously "in the! Kfl courts of Massachusetts and Now Hamp-B Hamp-B 1 ahlre and tho federal court for the Diets Die-ts I trlct of Xe-w Hampshire, e In these, George "W. Glover of Lead. B S. D., and E. J. Foster-Eddy of 'Water-Si 'Water-Si J bury, Vt., son and adopted son of Mrs. B 9 Eddy, abandoned their suits for a hare 39 In the estate and renounce their claims B 9 to money left the church. si Rights Restored. 8 I The trustees on their part, consent that ffi I the administrator shall pay 55005 for the ffifi assignment of tho sons' contingent right BO to renew in their lifetime the copyrights BB upon their mother's published works. Bfl They further consent that the trustees BjM holding- $175,000 (which is the trust fund BH portion of tho $290,000 settled on them Bfl by Mrs. Eddy In 190D in lieu of their BB share of the estate) shall not further JUll i:laim that their rights in that fund were BH forfeited by their action In subsequent BB court proceedlngo. As one of the attorneys Bfl representing Glover and Foster-Eddy. Bfl Herbert Parker tonight said: Bfl "Tho stipulations from tho viewpoint Bfl of the. helra finally and conclusively ter- ttfl mfnate all present litigation and prc- Sfl elude tho possibility of further Iitlfjatlon Bfl by them with respect to the disposition of Hfl , tho estate In the several courts " KB No New Consideration. Bfl It is maintained by both parties that B3B no consideration other than that shown KH In the stipulation influences the retire- BH mcnt of tho heirs from a contest that Hfl has occupied the courts for more than Hfl two years. Hfl Mrs. Eddy died at Newton. Mass., De- Hfl cumber 4, 1010. Her will, which disposed Hfl of an estate of about $2,500,000, left ap- HM ' proximately $2,000,000 In trust to the fflH First Church of the Christian Science of WjfiA Boston, Of tho two sons who, a year be- BpM fore her death had received from Mrs. 83 Eddy 5290,000 in satisfaction of all claims Hg against her estate, attacked the bill in HHj January. 1911. invoking statutes of New BB Hampshire and Massachusetts which HI limit bequests to churches to sums re- ffi turning: annual incomes of not more than Hi $5000 and $2000 in the respective states. LSI Exentually the question of the validity of H I the will reached the supreme courts of HH both states. Hfl In New Hampshire the will was upheld. IBfl The supreme court of Massachusetts Hfl ruled that tho $2,000,000 bequest could not Hfl be received by the mother church, but HH at tho same time declared that the will Hfl of the benefactor should be respected i Statement of Counsel. CONCORD, N. II., Feb. 7 General Frank S. Strccter, who represented the . Christian Science church for arsrument on the action brought to break the will of Mn--. Eddy, said tonight: "In view of the denunciator' allegations allega-tions In the court pleadings of Mrs. Eddy's two sons against her, hor rollglon and the officials of hor church, the recent proposal of their counsel to end that litigation liti-gation came to us as an agreeable sur-( sur-( prise. II was especially gratifying that Mr. Parker willingly should agreo that the cons' pleadings should he so amended j as to 'contain no allegations reflecting ' upon Mrs. Eddy or upon Christian Science ' or on the Integrity and good faith of her. associates, counsel and trustees: and that paid allegations shall be expunged from the record.' "This agrecmont. coupled with Mr. Parker's proposal to abandon all the IIU- gat Ion and to consent to final decrees against tho eons In all the courts, removes re-moves all tho difficulties: and the form of the stipulations was most amicably ar-"The ar-"The termination, of this litigation has i been brought about amlcublv and volun- : tarlly on the part of the heirs and all parties have Joined In mutual consent I tn tho. entry of th proposed decrees In the several courts." |