Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-07-29
The GAINES CASE.

| 10 De beIJleu al last.
As far as the city of New Orleans
is concerned the Gaines case is a
thing of the past. On Monday w.
w. Whitney, the administrator of
the estate, received a check for $685.
1888, in full settlement of the city's
Indebtedness. Yesterday he filed
his account IN the civil district court,
and within a few days following the
expiration of the judicial limit for
filing opposition the various creditors
will, with but few exceptions, receive
the full amount of their claims. The
composition of the city's indebted
ness to the Gaines estate is best told
in the following statement, which
served as the basis of settlement:
Principal, as per judgment, $751;
811.49; principal added, $4,000; in
terest from July 10, 1881, to July 25,
1892, at per cent per annum, s343,-
62s.O1; total, s9Ss, 94I.49. Less pay
ment imputed by the decree as paid
by the city May 81, 1880, s2O,7s7.61
-s9ls,l53.s2; costs, s5,691.1o; total,
$923,7ss
The account as filed by the admin
istrator consists of two parts, one
containing the admitted claims, or
those which it is proposed to pay i'm
mediately, and those over which
some dispute exists. Among the
the former set are to be noticed the
following, the greater portion of
which go to New Orleans people,
among them the wives and other
heirs of deceased lawyers.
Estate of Walter Jones, of Wash
ington, the great lawyer who argued
Mrs. Gaines case thirty years ago,
$4,000; the Misses Peyton, heirs of
Hon. Bailey Peyton, who for several
years represented Tennessee in con-
gress, and who was one of the first
attorneys in the case, get $4,000; E.
w. Huntington, the well known To-
cal attorney, $4,000; J. Ward Cur
ley, ST., for services rendered as
master, $4,000; heirs and assignees
of the late E. Sabourin, for services
rendered by the deceased as a master
IN suit against the city, $4,000; W..
H. Wilder, for many years the attor-
ney and agent of Mrs. Gaines,S6, 900;
Mrs. Emily Bonford, for services
rendered by her deceased husband,
49, 900; Mrs. Mary E. Randolph, for
services rendered by her deceased
husband, $4,000; heirs of E. Warren
Noise, for professional services rem
dered by the deceased, $4,000. The
account bears the names of other
claimants for small sums, making a
grand total of claims admitted and
proposed to be paid of $279,037.6o.
The disputed claims amount to
$4,000, including certain legacies
claimed under the alleged will OF
Mrs. Gaines, executed on January 3,
1885, and the probate of which is
now being contested in the New
York courts.
Among the claims in dispute are
the following: Estate of w. r.
Mills, for professional services
rendered, $3.50 90; estate of John @.
Campbell, for professional services
rendered in litigation in the United
States courts, $4,000; VIM. Il. Gil
bert, for services in New York liti-
cation, 50, 100.
In the same condition is the joint
clam of Messrs. Thomas G. Semmes
and the heirs of Alfred Goldthwaite
for SlSO,O0O for professional services
rendered under written contract fol
10 per cent of the amount recovered
This claim is now pending on appea
in the United States circuit court
Another item of interest in the &C
count is the administrators fee
amounting to 92,05s.s4, being p
per cent on the $91s,l53.92, thu
amount recovered, less costs.