The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-05-29
From the Petersburg Express.
The GetebYGte6E Gaines C,sse.

The final decision of the suit OF Mrs.
Gaines against the City of New Orleans,
by the Supreme Court, terminates one of
the most extraordinary cases of litigation
in the whole history of civil jurisprudence,
1t is remarkable, says the Philadelphia
Ecening Bulletin, lin an able review of the
case) for the curiosity of the case itself; for
thelarge amount of property which it in
wolves, and for the wonderful display of
enduring pertinacity with which the plain
tiff has devoted her life the prosecution of
what has long been held to be a hopeless
cause. Seven times has Mrs. Gaines plea
ded her case before the Supreme Court,
sometimes with partial success, sometimes
with none, until, at last after forty years of
incessant litigation, she has won the day
and establishes her claim to large portion
of the city OF New Orleans, valued, very
modestly, at five millions of dollars. This
fight has been fought by Mrs. Gaines single
handed. She has literally gone through fire
and flood, as she has travelled over, the
country, always intent upon the one
great business of her life. With a bouyan-
cy of temperament that knew no abatement,
with an abiding faith in the justice of her
cause and OF its ultimate success; with few
friends and very limited means with life
slipping away under the long delays and
slow processes of the law, this truly re-
markable woman has perseverd until she
has conquered fortune.
A brief outline of this singular case will
be interesting to our readers:
In 1894, Zulime nee Carriere, beautiful
Creole OF New Orleans, married one Jerome
dies Oranges, in New Orleans. In 1902 Dan
iel Clark, prominent citizen of New Or
leans, became attached to Madame dies Gran
ges, and, about the same time, it is alleged
that it was discovered that dies Oranges had
awife living in France, and that, the second
marriage thus proving void, Daniel Clark
privately married the lady in Philadel-
phia. Of this marriage the present plain
tiff claims to have been born in Philadel-
>hia in 1902 or 1903. Her mother and
lerself were committed to the care of her
ather's friend and partner, Mr. Daniel w.
Joke, of this city. She afterwards became
N inmate of the family of Col Samuel B.
Davis, and was known among her school
SLOWS, some of whom still remember her,
Myra Davis,
When she grew up, it became known to
er that her true name was Clark, and she
as established the existence of q will of
,aniel Clark's acknowledging her as his
,gitimate daughter Yet her own mother,
no, during Clark's life, married M. Gar
ette a well known citizen of Philadel-
hia, was never summoned as a witness by
RS. Gaines, and her father, Daniel Clark,
airing his wife's life, addressed Miss Ca
N, of Baltimore, who, however, did not
'cept his advances.
Myra Clark married Mr.. VIM. Wal
ce Whitney, of New York, by whom she
ld two children, a son and daughter, still
ing. After Mr.. Whitney's death, she
arried Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines,
no died in 1S49. One child, the issue Of
,r second marriage, died in infancy.
Daniel Clark owned large tracts of
ound within the limits of New Orleans,
lich have become immensely valuable
ore than thousand suits have been in
t tuted by Mrs. Gaines to recover these
operties, upon which many of the finest
tprovements now stand The decision of
e Supreme Court only applies, directly,
I three suits, but its ruling win cover the