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Show HOECOMPROmiSED ALIENATION SUIT 'NEW YOKK, May Jj.Thot lato Robert Hp'opald $20,000 to Louis" F. Brown of 'Covington, Ky., to peraifado Brown to drop a suit against Hoo for tho allnoation of tho affections of his wifo according to testimony by Brown filed today In tho county clerks office of-fice Tho executors of the Hoe ostnto havo been sued by Margaret JohnBon Brown Johns, who was Brown's former for-mer wife, and Hoe's amanuensis, for a $30,000 mortgage which she declares Mr. Hoo assigned to hor, Tho deposition of Brown was taken by the executors to substantiate their contention that such gifts as Mr. Hoo made to tho woman wero not for a legal consideration, it being alleged by the oxecutors to tho suit, that the woman used undue influence ocr Mr, j Hop , r Notwithstanding the dropping of the original suit, which Mr. Brown testified testi-fied ho had done in consideration of $20,000, ho got a divorce In 1907 on tho ground of abandonment. |