30-YEAR LAW SUIT.
NEW YORK, .Tune 5.
After 50 years’ litigation, during which both the principals and all the. witnesses have died. Miss Marion Brown, of ’ Brookline, Boston, granddaughter of the original claimant, lias been awarded £120,000 by the .Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The story of the dispute, which goes hack to the romantic pioneer days in the Middle-West, is based on a partnership alleged to have existed between Miss Brown’s grandfather, Edward White, and a man named Fletcher. It involves 16,000 acres ol what was then virgin pine forest, hut which now is the site of the flourishing town of Alpena. In 1873 White died. Fletcher immediately repudiated the partnership and said he was the real owner of the certificates and land. White’s executor began a suit against him, which has been before the State and Federal Courts ever since, decisions being rendered in turn in favour of both parties. . Miss Brown, who is 00, is still unsatisfied with tlie result of the action, and has begun another suit, claiming a further £50,000 from Fletcher’s heirs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1922, Page 1
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17730-YEAR LAW SUIT. Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1922, Page 1
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