Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-20
The Romance Of Law--ImpOrtant viii
EH Case.


Case.
The New York Tribune gives the following his.
tory of singular will case now before the courts
Of that city:
In 7T4, according TO the records of parish, in
the little city Of Pau, Jean Icard director of the
public stage, otherwise post-boy, was joined in maj
rage, by the aid of the holy sacraments, to Made
line Riviere. In 1775, a son was born of that mar
rlage, and, in lT7T, daughter, Jeanne Icard, the
heroine OF our love case. Little Jeanne's father
died when she was eight years old, and it is sup
posed that her mother died when she was quite
young AT any rate, she had no friends to watch
her so sharply that she conld not fall in love with
Jean Ferrie. The Ferries were family of tanners
who had their vats in the south Of France. at Saint
Jerome, in the Department of Arriegc. Jean ad-
ded to his tanning business that of trader in horses
and mules, and used to 60 to Spain now and then,
On trading expedition. Whether g Jeanette and
Jeannot" were married or not Is the point at issue.
one thing, however, is tolerably certain; and that
that they had issue, son. named after his father
Jean. For some reason, our Jeanne did not choose
narss aa afs hoy herself and he put out to
occasionally by his father miles off, He was visited
nurse died. and he was put with other Soon his
very long his father was killed, on the i before
Toulouse to Spain, while attempting perhapsom
smuggle some mules across the Pyrenees.
Little Jean grows up his mother goes to Bor-
ucduA lS eIlSdBSu III VI Sht-
alan a merchant, and there she becomes ac-
quainted with M. Dulux, also in the employ Of NJ.
Catalan. She had adopted her maiden name, II
she had ever departed from it, and for some rea-
son she thinks 1t prudent to conceal her former
marriage or liaison from M Dulux Little Jean,
therefore, did not see his mother very often, and
he was kept out in the mountains with one and an
other of the farmers. He was then taken to Bor-
deaux and placed In college to be polished. Our
JEAN however does not take to city life very kind
y; in two or three nights he finds out how to let
himself down from window and run back TO the
mountains. He was soon found by his mothers
agents. and placed in the country again to learn
Latin with man by the name Of Anniere. One
Of Cataan's agents is sent by and by to how he
gets on, and finds that Anniere, who had been re-
porting him to be getting along prosperously in the
abstrusities of Latin grammar, has been teaching
him nothing at all except to skip about the noun
tains like goat. In fact Ferie himself says thathe
was q as ignorant as goose" He was then taken
to bordeaux, and put to hatter's trade.
! Meantime the young widow, or otherwise, be-
gan to find out that she still pretty, with her
dark eyes and hair her pquant 'les retroussee, and
| her plump, round form, and She with prudent
/ eye to the main chance, entered into baison WIN
NJ, Duux, who proa,isod to be well 10 do In the
| world In 1907 they came to New York and set
up milliner's shop in Pearl street. He lived with.
her here, excepting visit or two to France until
! 1917, whan he went to France, and from some
cause or other he did not come back again. Jeanne
was getting to be forty, and her temper was never
very amiabie. Soon after their arrival here, learn
ing that their peculiar mode of life was not Ia
mode in this country, with laudabe desire to con-
form to its CUSTOMS they were married cyilly and
religiously, and in all possible forms. Soon after
Dulux left her, she sent 70 Bordeaux for her son.
He was then so near the age for conscription that
he had to be brought off in double-bottomed fat
boat about ten miles TO eludc the vigilance Of the
French custom-house officers. He landed in Phil
adelphia and came to New York to live with his
mother. But the old ady's prudence has been de-
yeoping itself until Jean finds that while the hat
tcrs boy got white bread in Bordeaux, the rich
mans son only gets blabk bread in New York.
| From fondling him, and from calling him mon fis
and mon gdrcon, she came at last 10 slapping him
| in the face. Jean was now some twenty-five years
old, and he could not stand this. Sometimes ma.
ternal authority extended 30 far TO make the
| blood run. So Jean went TO benevolent barber,
and took up his abode. Madame was exceedingly
indignant at this she wanted to put him TO some
| high trade, like merchants" Jean was with her
and away by times and at last he went TO Cincin-
| natl The old lady was now left alone Her bro
ther had died long ago In tho disasfrons expedition
which Napoleon sent to St Domingo. We hear
| something about niece, In 1874, with her rom
France, girl of fourteen, with dark hair and eyes
But this is apocryphal. She was living lonely
| life She had grown old. Her nez rctrousse had
| become decided pug and she was little, dried.
up, knotty woman, with only her black eyes, and
even they had come TO look as though they were
continually searching for money. In the street,
she wore an immense straw bonnet with a shovel
'front.' and carried huge reticule stuffed with mo-
ney and papers She lived In the third story OF
one of her buildings in William street. Men went
up to borrow money Of her, ion mortgage, OF
course.) She asked "Wbcre Is the property
i who owns II? is il built on? Is 4 down town.
IL all these questions were not answered satisac-
torily, she would say, "Go long, I've no money TO
lend.n
AT last her time came She was run over by
an omnibus last November in Broadway, near the
corner of Fulton street. and her ankle was crushed.
She was taken 20 st. Vincents Hospital, where
she fingered for twelve days. She talked about
having a win made, about giving $4,000 for q
hospital TO be called Dulux's Hospital and yari-
Gus other donations. She sent for her lawyer sew
eral times, bnt could never make mp her mind 10
give her property away-not even for Dulux
Il Hospital She sent for her son, but he was sick
and could not come So she died without a will,
and nov that son, John 2. Ferrie, makes applica-
ton to be appointed administrator on her estate.
The public administrator, Mr.. Sweeney, does NOT
waive his right Messrs. Sherwood and Brady ap
pear for the applicant, and Messrs Whitehead ant
oConnor for relatives supposed TO be now living il
Toulouse.
Large quantities Of evidence have been taken
J and yesterday the question Of administration wa:
, argued before the Surrogate.
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