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Show ADOPTED CHILD IS CENTER OF CONTEST I i NOW YORK, Nov. 29. The children chi-ldren of the late Park Benjamin, in-itornaUonal in-itornaUonal lawyer and father-in-law of Enrico Caruso, Tuesday challenged I in court the legality of their father's I adoption or Anna Roichi Benjamin. whom tjjey accuse of having turned him against them. Contesting their father's will, which cut them off with a dollar each an,; loaves all the $400,000 estate to the ; young immigrant whom he sought to c , ?he oMldren. through their counsel appeared before Surrogate ii,0i,ilVn 11 ,notlon made by Anna Bolchi Benjamin to vacate an order requiring her to submit to an oral examination in advance of trial of th cntest. This examination Anna calls a flshlnsr expedition, intended to boiler boi-ler the plaintiff's charges that she had caused their father to term thorn parasites in Ids will. , C'U,ncl for th0 children, who included in-cluded Caruso's widow, then told Bur-: Bur-: rotate Cohalan that they denied the legality of Anna's adoption in the nnsylvania courts and reminded him that he had himself once refUfl 1 H-nj.-iiiiin adoption papers. The- lawyer law-yer added that Anna had induced tho lawyer to obtain papers In Wiikes-Lurre, Wiikes-Lurre, Pa., where he had no residence. resi-dence. The surrogate reserved decision on the motion to vacate. |