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Show WEIGHTMAN HEIRS WILL FIGHT TO SECURE ESTATE Grandchildren of. Philadelphia Chemist to Wage a Legal Battle for $100,000,000 Property. PHILADELPHIA. March 21 A legal battle over the hundred million dollar estate left by William Welghtman, the manufacturing chemist, to bis daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Mlna A. Walker, Is threatened threat-ened by the widow of Welghtman's son. Attorneys are engaged In drawing up papers in the suit, which. It is under stood,, will be brought at ones on be half of six grandchildren of the manufacturer. manu-facturer. Their mother has remarried since the death of her first husband and now bears the name of Mrs. Jones Wlster. She asserts that William Welghtman pledged himself to remember the offspring off-spring of his son lh a cod lei L Mrs. Wlster states that since the death of her first husband's father, she has, through her attorneys, made effort to have Mrs. Walker carry out Mr. Weightman's alleged promise and to have received from Mrs. Walker a flat refusal and dental that the will bears such a codicil. When Welghtman died he made his sole surviving child. Mrs. Walker, sole heir. She Is considered the richest woman in the world. |