Show U G or 1100 1 f ASTOR ASI 1 1 r. r rr se Claim on Al Alleged eged I J partnership of a Century Cen- Cen en- en tury Ago It By LELAND L L. CHE CHELEY LEY United d Press Preas Staff Correspondent dant s LOUIS rouiS U UI TJI-Iti In a little laW latt ci l c littered with affidavits Hs n letterA letters let let- terA questionnaires and photo- photo sits alts 3 aman man who ho ma may lead 2 person s persons to o wealth wealth wealth from f rom the thc coffers rs of at the Astor I.- I. r Hoy IIo a St. St Louis att rj r- r y j Is tho the man who I is representing res gr group JI In the thc t fl ht for an an ans an's cs- cs s- s lato tato which has hns been lIcen conservatively nUvel n at t approximately coo Alth Ull ugh j li they haVo hao enco encountered T. T M pv v i iI l legal rebuffs these eleven ahl hundred all descendants of one John Nicholas EmerIck who the they started John Jacob Astor In n I 1 Business ss over ocr oy r a hundred years ago Continue with grim tb attempt pt to get g what the they cJ claim im lif iI theirs Jott lost Tott their first Ic- Ic Having S' S already In the Ul United States dis- dis court in York tho the Mississippi Mis J M Valley Valley- Ass As Association of C Eni- Eni fek Heirs leli I-leli is preparing preparing- to appeal i ae af c. c It I 1 It ft loses the appear it is s Planning lannI g to take tako Its claim to the United l States Stales St tes supreme mc court When th the appeal Is heard the tho court ourt will review Incident of ot morean morean more Uan an a a century cel tury ago ato which the Em- Em s c ll say a tO took place place and which th the say y H nt OLD AGREE AGREEMENT FOUND will i the relate in court wa iva until recently fJ family tra tradition b but t. t In th 19 1926 G the thel discovery ery of t a will and ind trust agree agree- le t was made The rhe at they ar aro the the- missing docu- docu e tg which prevented settle ment of or case cas stor handed hande 1 d down n from to g generation says saZ that merl k after lter giving gf Astor Ills 15 iJ in life life- as as a business man dade nade- him hi his r in 1 tl fur ur bu business dl died d' d dIn in 1816 th the story atory Bees but prior to that time Emerick merick Ud Into an nn agreement with J AlIt Ait r that his ls of the aS was to continue con con- con con- under the of or Astor b but t i. stipulating that It at the thed d d of ninety years arB th the h or the tile then n family ve e nto to hl his claim estate The TIle that tho the estate ba has grown to fifty I Its iti original value alue DOCUMENTS O OC MENTS IN TRUNK The ninety years year expired in 1907 q or nr there thereabouts b but t tb th the did dd didot ot although thc they claim the tho tor offered to settle MUlo ot at that time providing the will and trust agree agree- m ment could b be J produced produced but but th they ticy i were mh missing In Iii 1926 G however r. r Mrs Edna na Car- Car nahan millan an m 1 heiress lre t discovered dIcov- dIcov er cr ered d what wat the to b be betho the thc missing documents in Ill tho the of or an n old trunk which belonged to her her wc wealthy ancestor nc foi Then cane calne the he organization of tho tile Mississippi Valley Association of oC Emerick Heirs with 1100 members mem mem- hers bers an and 1 the selection of or Hoy IIo as th their lr le leader der The Tho primary reason for tor their fr or organization was to cut ut tho the expense of oC c conducting n tho the legal fight h t. t Months of hard bard h r and co costly U work followed then came the hearing hut but th the J lo ot t l ht the court held that the suit should h have hie been instituted long S ago But the theE E sa say they I y had had a tradition tion ago ago and ald without wf they could not b be successful l lIn in a 1 court fight Now during durin the the- present term of ot th tho United l Stat States s' s appellate court eleven cloven hundred hunched tho the l legion gjon of ot tho the iCa tte to to me stand i to a attempt to overcome another great obstacle in their heIr light fight for fortune |