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Show 'TMAS GLOOMY DAY FOR W. E. D. STOKES NEW YORK, Jan 24. Monday was a gloomy day for W. E D. Stokes, capitalist and hotel mun. A $110,139 Judgmnt against him was awarded the estate of his brother. Thomas, In one court, the suit being to recover sums due on unpaid notes. In another court. Justice Cohalan refused re-fused to rueognl7e a physician's i ertlfl- :it- that Mr Stokes was ill with pneumonia pneu-monia and could not appear to defend the stilt of his wife. Mrs. Helen Elwood Stoke, to set a-slde tho conveyance ot Mr Stokes" real estate to a holding 1 corporation on the ground that It deprived de-prived her of her dower- The case went over until today, however, when It was learned one of Mr. Stokes lav. -yors was engaged in another court. |