New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-21
CONTEST FOR A BIG ESTATE.
THE WILL OF CHARLES BATHGATE BECK
AGAIN DISPUTED.

NEW SUIT BEGUN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. COLI
LEcE. DR. rARKnuRsT's SOCIETY. THE NEW
YORK HOSPITAL AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS
LARGELY INTERESTED IN IT'S RESULT
Counsel for Mrs Matilda II. Carter began new
suit Yesterday In the Superior Court TO contest the
will OF Charles Bathgste Beck
Mr.. Beck died on October H. 1892 leaving an
estate estimated TO be worth from $500 900 to S.
10000 by his WILL executed on November G.
1891 Mr.. Beck left $4,000 to the Home for Incur
abos. $4,000 to the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty TO Children. 5000 TO the Peabody Home for
Aged Women and $1,000 to Columbia College, OF
which 5000 was 10 be for a free scholarship and
$500 for prizes In the law school. He gave 100000
20 the First Presbyterian Church in West Farms
Cor the erection OF a new church. TO contain a
tablet announcing that he had erected the ednce TO
the memory OF his mother
The testator made few personal requests and
left The entire residue OF the estate subject TO the
Ne interests OF his relatives in equal shares to
the Society for the Prevention OF Crime. the New
York Hospital Columbia College and the Board Of.
Home Missions OF the Presbyterian Church. The
Farmers Loan and Trust Company was made
executor and trustee under the will.
Several actions have been brought 10 test the
LEGALITY OF the document. Mrs Matilda r. Carter.
who specifically dislnherted by the WILL
brought a contes. when 1t was first offered for
eral Term OF the Supreme Cour. from Surrogate
Fiizgerald's decree admitting the will to probate.
The Supreme Court affirmed the Surrogates order
admitting the Will
The Farmers Loan and Trust Company then
brought a suit in the Supreme Court TO have the
will declared valid that disconnected relatives
might keep renewing suits affecting the title
10 the real estate. The Supreme Court sustained
the Will. and the executor was TO sell considerable
OF the real estate next week, so as 10 have funds
20 distribute among the educational. charitable
and religious corporations that were the principal
benehciaries under the will In beginning the new
suit In the Supreme Court a lis pendens was fled
against the real estate. III hel complaint In the
action begun yesterday Mrs Carter alleges, after
reciting the death OF Mr.. Beck and the admission
OF the will probate. that said paper purporting
10 be the last will OF the said Charles b. Beck
was and is not the asst will and testament OF the
said deceased and that al the alleged execution of
the will Mr. Beck not possessed Of testament
tory capacity 10 make a valid WI. hat me WIZ
was not subscribed. published and atested IN con.
the will is valid" It is also said that the al
legged will was obtained by undue influence by some
al saFs hat she and Charote
sixteen years Old, as sole heirs Of the said Charles
hat n Dt they have been deprived of the estate.
The plaintiff asks that ne VII ee SET asio os a the
Hoperty claimed to have been passed under said
VII among sa the rgn a4er n end Char
lite Bathgate are sisters. The estate consists
mainly OF a large farm in the heart OF the annexed
district and in Westchester County.
Mrs Janet Beck and her brothers. James ana
Alexander Bathgate. owned the property previous
10 Charles Bathgate Beck Alexander Bathgate
lived with his brother and sister. and had always
nassed as a bachelor. and 1t was great surprise
keepers Della Malloy. announced that he was the
father OF her two children. Alexander died In lssl
Ills sister Mrs Janet Beck. and his brother james
survived him only shor, time. and Charles BATH
gata Beck who son OF Mrs. Janet BECK
snher,ted ALI the property. A contest was then
brought by Alexander Bathgates two children; ana
Mrs Reck compromised with them. In his VIII ne
especially provided that part OF his property
should go 10 his uncles alleged children VINO are
the plaintiffs In the action begun yesterday