The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-11
A. 7. STEWARDS Will.
Self-AsSerted Relatives Seeking to
Have II Set Aside.
FORMIDABLE PETITION.
Hungering for Share Of the Million.
mares Vast Estate. q

Another fight has been initiated IN the courts, ne
object OF which is to compel partition Of the VAL
liable real estate left by the lato A. 7. Stewart
nmorg score OF moro OF persons VINO claim as his
heirs and OF kin be entitled to pro rata
of such estate
PARTIES TO THE SUIT.
The plaintiffs in the new litigation arc Alexander
Stewart and Anu J. Bagley the first alleged beng
a nephew and the latter q niece OF tho de-
ceased millionaire Tho list Of defendants 10
most formidable one comprising Cornelia
NJ. stewart, Henry Hilton and Ellen B.
Hilton his wife, Cornolia $. Butler and Prescott Hall
Butler, her husband; Charles B. Cinch Henry p.
McConn George Munroc, Anna Cncn, Julia Cncn
aud Emma Clinch May Brougn Ann Stewart Sarah
Morse, Ja.nos Bailey, Thomas Bailey, Eliza Bailey,
Mary Deans, Thomas Begey, Thomas Begley No. 2,
Alexander Bcgley, William Bcglcy, Jane Bcgley
Deans, Augustus NJ. Turney, George W. Turney,
Samuel Turney, James Turney, William
Ii. Turney, Catherine E. Turney, Lucreta
NJ. Turney, Winthrop Turney, John Turney,
Margaret Richardson. Sarah Harvey. Margaret Nc
wilams the lineal descendants, II any, of William
stewart james Stewart and Ann Stewart, formerly Of
Antrim nty, Ireland, their names being 10 those
plaintiffs unknown having or claiming to have my in
tsrest in the premises sought to DO portioned IN thh
action.
whom dcvscs Of real estate were made BY Mr. Stewsrt
but all others alleged 10 these proceedings as having
through being OF Kin, interest his estate.
THE COMPLAINT. sW~
Tho complaint in tho action, which has not yet
been served but which, is stated will be served to.
day Mrs Stewart, Judge Hilton and others having
In thor possession the real estate lott by Mr. Stewart
is very lengthy document characterized with thu
verbage OF such legal papers, but the gst Of
which can be very briefly told. Tho main point is
that the parties seeking to have the estate
arc legally entitled to pro rata tho estate as
heirs and next OF kim the prayer OF the complaint
IS simply TO the estate parttioned among these
various claimants through the appointment OF COM
mssiOncrS tor that purpose.
THE RIAL ESTATE.
Tho real estate asked to be partitioned, may well
Nos i. and Amity street; Nos. 5s4, 7s2 aud 7sA
Broadway; Nos. 80, ~. %; 90 no. ~ ia,
Mo-: 49, s. ana IS chamSsrs street, Nos .'e ii
and 4s Commerce street; Nos. ll9 aud lal
Crosby street. Nos IS 49, "a 50 and q Centre
Elm street; No 222 East Ninth street No. $40 East
Nos l. 8, 10, Is and 20 East thrtyiourth street. Nos
and lis East rhir.y-nlth street. No 10 East Thirty
. street Ct Nos /: l4s laS ana =, Eighth street,
S Sts'': street. sis' No: st. g. g 81 8
Mercer street; Nos S. IS and 81 Morton street; No
l29 Park street, Nos $40. 53l and $40 Pearl street;
~ Is 81 a. 90 o. os 100 and io3 Reaae street; NO.
50 souin FIFTH avSnus;, Nos lssx and iss
wes. Fourth street; Nos 81, 50, ST. 81, SO and IS
West Ninth street, No 40 West rcnth street. No. Asa
West Twenty. second street AMI No 80 West Twenty
ninth street, The OF the list comprises the land
covered by hs wholesale store, corner OF broadway
aud Chambers street, also tho retail store bou nded
by Broadway Tenth street, Fourth avenue and Ninth
street, also No. 1856 Filth the former residence
OF Mr. stewart and his late residence corner OF Fifth
avenue and Thrty-fourth street. the Working
Women's Hotel, ana the Metropolitan Hotel. Tho
list also prises the tract OF land and buildings
II at Hampstead, Long Island, known stewards
Garden CITY; the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga, and
what was formerly known the Utica steam woollcn
properly, III Utica
STATEMENT OF PROSECUTING COUNSEL.
Mr. S. H. KnceIand Is tho principal lawyer In bring.
ing this partition suit He states that 10
good faith and that no intends TO prosecute It 70
tho deceased millionaire who reside In tho
around Belfast He says that he has power
OF attorney from several OF these relatives have
been cut OF by Mr.. Stewards will submitted TO
probate TINS cty. IL 10 claimed that Mr.. Stewart
did leave any will, AMI that bringing the suit in
present form throws upon the dcvsees under tho
will tho burden oil proving It's gcnuinenoss, or at
least that 1t not made through undue Influence.
JUDGE TIM
A reporter OF the HERALD called on Judge Hilton
TO ascertain his regard to this suit He said
that Ito really nothing TO say; no papers had been
served him, and that Il was evidently only another
phase OF the Bagley case Alter repeating that he
had nothing to no added smilingy, that the spirit
OF contesting Wills IL evidently growing feature In
tho nations free institutions.