Evening journal., 1896-12-23
WANT mrs. MOORE REMOVED
SHE IS GIVEN ADDITIONAL TIME TO
ANSWER a PETITION.

ANSWER a PETITION.
CLARENCE MOORE SAYS msl
MOTHER IS INSANE AND INCA
Fable or PERFORMING Herr
DUTIES AS EXECUTRIX ~ THE
ESTATE
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 23.-Under a |
] decree made by President Judge /
| Hanna. Mrs. Clara J. Moore is to have /
/ four weeks additional time from the /
! 18th instant TO answer the petition Of
/ her son, Clarence B. Moore. who asked |
! to have her removed as co-executriX |
of the estate of her husband. Bloom |
/ field II. Moore, deceased 1t is stated /
in the petition that Bloomfield II. |
Moore died July 8, 1878. after having
executed will and codcil, and leaving
to survive him his widow, Clara j.
Moore the petitioner, and two daugh-
ters, Ella, intermarried with Count
Carl Gustave Won Rosen. of Stockholm,
Sweden, and Lillian, then unmarried.
but afterwards intermarried with Carl
de Bildt, now residing in Rome.
The provisions made for the widow
and children are narrated, and it is
stated that the decendent desired his es-
tate to be so managed, if possible and
advisable, that the son, Clarence, might
carry on the business. Other particu-
lars are mentioned, and it is stated
, that by the codici the widow and son
were appointed executors and that they
were not to give bonds for the proper
settlement of the estate, and that the
executor should make such arrange
ments for carrying on the testatOr's
business as paper manufacturer as
they thought proper, etc, that Countess
Won Rosen died in Sweden in 1892, leav-
ing five children to survive her. The
. Baroness de Bildt is a resident of Lon
don. and has two children.
1t is submitted that prior to the death
g of the testatOr he obtained a charter
4 from the State of Delaware for a COR
poration to be known as the Jessup
& Moore Paper Company. for the pur-
, pose of carrying on the paper business,
y in which he was then engaged that
Z subsequent to his death the same was
u | organized by the petitioner, and the
y stock. amounting to $2,440 900. issued
to his estate in payment for the prop
- erty and business of the firm of JessuI
II & Moore, then owned entirely by the
'0 estate.
Various particulars are given regard
II ing the organization of the board of di-
n rectOrs, and the long service of the pc.
1t titioner as president of the company.
y The petitioner says that he has al
,e ways been the sole acting executor o
l. the estate, receiving no compensation
therefore after 1882, and make all of th'
investments of the surplus moneys be
~ longing to mis- mother from which
(" large profit has been derived, both il
ie his individual capacity and as executor
and that he still holds her power of at
torney.
The petitioner says that for man.
w years past his mother, who has re
Is moved from Philadelphia and now ne
o. sides i'm London, has been insane. 81
it much so that she has been incapabl
ty of performing her duties as executrf
A. in the estate, and that during this tim
q she has carried on @ system of persecu
es tiOn against him, circulating charge
e- relating 10 the management of tn
ed business and the estate and as to hi
n private character.
he That she has endeavOred to injur
nd the ebusinessof theJessup & Moore Pape
as Company by circulating charge
US against other directors and employees
II and that she has carried this matte
ng to the extreme of publishing letter
er and pamphlets and distributing theI
ed among the paper trade; that she Ia
e. endeavOred to obtain control of tn
NJ company and place in charge thereC
be and upon the board of directors an
on in the office persons unfit to manas
the business, and that she has threa
ened in writing &c rule or ruin tn
on business.
he The petitioner said that he abstaine
IN. for years from bringing these facts {
&C. the attention of the court because of
feeling that a son should not ARA
himself against his mother, but tn;
be within the last year she has brOugl
his into court an unfOunded petition asl
re- ing for his discharge. and has force
p him to open up his unfortunate famil
ts condition, and he, mindful of the III
M certainties of life, his health for sel
me eral years past having been affected b
a painful accident to one of his eye
& and fearful that in the event of any
,ls, thing happening to him. his mOtht
lg- will, by virtue of her rights as SUI
lec viving executor, obtain control Of th
business and wreck the same, the pet
toner represented to the court: "Firs
IS that Clara J. Moore, one of the excel
as tors of the above estate, is insane an
las untitled to perform the duties of tn
ed office of executor: second. that II
ek- said Clara J. Moore, executor as afor,
us said, by her actions towards the e.
ice tate shown herself to both a detrimei
ice to the estate and totally untitled to a.
ne i'm the capacity Of executrix; third, thi
lpe the said Clara J. Moore is now dom
"a, ciled In the city of London, and is I
of longer a citizen of Philadelphia"
at The court was asked to remove Mr.
the Moore and appoint some responsib
ula trust company as executor i'm her plac
the The order extending the time for Il
cen filing of an answer by Mrs. Moore MAJ
lil- by Judge Hanan reads as follow
ore with proper regard to regular pr
'e's cedure the decree submitted could n
be made
The eXecutrix, although not appea
ing nor filing an answer, cannot tn
is, be summarily dismissed. The sett