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Show M Hrl-di'M wn.i I Was CompIlrM.tl rnoo-h nltii. ont a Codicil. Xew York, Nov. 15. The suit which Is pending in the Supreme Court over the will oC millionaire Charles C Hastings shows that he was a man who looked closely after the most minute business detail Mr. Hastings was father of Ll-iie Mollard Hastings, who married Dr. I-rarer C. Fuller last februarv. Her husband has Just applied fora divorce, di-vorce, naming Leicester Holme as co-respondent. Mr. Hastings was a manufacturing clothier ot New Yrs. with extensive interests in San Francisco, and when be dieit he left an estate of over iiOXJ.OOO. The property was bequeathed to hi-two hi-two children, Charhs Heastonand Llulo Mollard, with the exceptlot ot n few small legacies. The sole executor aild trustee cf the will, Mr. Yra H. Phillips, ha handled the estate under its provisions pro-visions for sit yearly but the provision provis-ion of the will becanio so complicated compli-cated at last that lib entered a suit In the supreme court against tin two principal beneficiaries to deter-mlnejust deter-mlnejust what Mr.Hastlngs deslre. to have done. Patiers were served on Mrs. Dr. Euller Just prior to hei departure for California. The will was drawn by a New York lawyer. It was sufllcientli complicated in itself without a codi ell, Willi conflicting provisions, which were added by a Han Francisco Fran-cisco attorney. The will named Messrs. James A. Lowrey, D Henry ewton and William H Phillips trustees, and the codicil eliminated the first two nimed, making Mr. Pbilllis alto guardian of the children. Provision wa made that upon attalulng the age of 20 years each should receive one-sixth one-sixth of the, estate. Another sixth was to be given each of them fout years later, and the rest w hen the had arrived at the ago of SO. Mixed up In the will was an anuulty to a brother of Mr. Phillips, which the trustee must retain funds to meet, and a number ot conditional lege-cits, lege-cits, which mlsht be open to dispute. dis-pute. The will Covers thirteen closely writlen foolscap pages. |
