A QUEER LAWSUIT. Peculiar Contest of the WILL of an Old French Musician.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

A QUEER LAWSUIT. Peculiar Contest of the WILL of an Old French Musician.

M. MaiTvICE Schu.mnc.lk, .1 n,<u,atiM<i Frenchman, v a-- a musical imbi'-iu ; in l\u •.- a fey. yeais a£o. He wa.sjiu iiuiin ur tu< l•) of Beetho\cn, and had i>uMi-h"d t'*, " Huguenot-" of Meyei beer ai> ;uk .inn • of Halevy. He died in IST!, m 1> id n. lea\ ing a daughter, who w.i-. I.c. it >" iMh. out of lawful wedlock, ami <i -n \,!m-i'\ the lii'nt in IMW, after the v-_ >' i-;'' j> of M. Schle-intioi's man )"."_;•-• r l''it ¥ i 1"i 1 " children. boi nof the s'une iatliL .•"!■! Muthi '. were e^ucatccl together, and en i!u .!• .n! of their father hi-- piopeit\ u '- i'i\i!ul between them. A fey/ week-. a<ro the i -un -u u'euh concehed the intent-ion of (uht'-hnu }"- si-terV li^l-t to her '-hare of l>< jmilmki 1 estate on the ground of her 'i »"^itiii'.i< v Med. \on Lei'i-, the lister, whui- 1-1 *' • i« ] to one of the aichitecK thai, lunl Ifi n employed b\ King 1 Luduiu of Ba\ i.i.i. a 1 , .1defended by Maitie Riunoiino. .••> I he na (l out the will of M. Se'hle^in^ei. In thi-? doeuinent the to- t.itoi 1 ."j-K.uh 1 to his d'luuhtci lock^ of i»(.Lil.(..tu hair a* well as her .^'nare ol the .-v. n - i<>i>, and added a ciuiou 15 clau-e to ih< t f ct that he w ould eui>e in lii^ ami *n < iiu '10.1 of his childicn would rai^e Ic^.ti < I^ . w. m 1 1 111 1 - anent hi^> la-t will and te-tai.i" l 'Ihe Fiench couit nonsuited ih^ pLu'iii. 1 aiid ?o a \ cry painful family affaii va- -■ tl* 1 foi the present.