The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
1. enera, King Gets S1as.

Stamford, Feb. 15.--General Horatio c. King, the well known Brooklyn lawyer,
 has has just just been awarded SIPS by Attorney John 4. Carter of Stamford and eN-
 Judge Brewster Of Danbury, commits
 sioners appointed by tine Ridgeffeii pto- bate court to determine the value of General Kings services rendered to Mrs. Stebbins and Mrs. Osgood, her sister, covering a period of several years, and services in their behalf on the estate Of Charlotte Moore after ward the Countess d'Etaine. The New York Suns account of the case is as fol- | lows.
 Mrs. Stebbins and Mrs Osgood lived in Ridgefeld, the summer resort of many New Workers, and General King speat I the heated term in the old town. The ladies were well advanced in years when General King began to manage their business for them, and although he never made an charge for his ser | vices, 1t was understood that the sis l ters had made wills almost duplicate of l each other, and each providing that when one died the property should go to | the surviving sister, both being so word- | ed that the property should ultimately pass into the possession of General King. Although both assured him that he should have in return for his services ! whatever property they should have at 1 their deaths, they changed their minds about two years ago and made new 1 wills
 i In these Mrs. Stebbins gave part of l her property to General King and the hnJ, 10 nFl, ,c 1 Mrs. Osgood co.tained no bequest to l the general.
 1 Both ladies died within a short time | of each other, and the new wills were
 a surprise to General King, who had 1 been the custodian of the first made. | When Mrs. Stebbins died, with the ex- l ception of $1,000 given to the St. | Stephens Episcopal church of Ridge 1 field, the estate became intestate. and | several claimants came forward. Gen l eral King thereupon put in claim for ] s2, 400 eor his services
 l The Countess d'Etaine, from whom 1 the ladies inherited some property, 1 was daughter of a MT. Moore at one i time United States consul at Manila | During a trip to Europe she met the l Count d'Etaine and fell in love with i him, and their marriage soon followed. ] The count was a gay fellow, and the 1 wife found that the payment of his 1 debts under the French law made big 1 inroads on her property. Having be-
 come tired of meeting his obligations | incurred at the gaming table. she left | him for her native land, and died soon l after arriving here.
 1 Evarts, Southmayd 6 Choate had sev-
 eral notes of the count, endorsed by her which they endeavored to collect, and 1 application to the Ridgefeld probate court for administration upon her es-
 tate Calvin G. Childs being retained to 1 prosecute the claims. The two aged
 aunts were greatly heightened when they were told that they would be com l pelled 70 come into court and disclose
 what they knew of their neice's estate | Judge Curtis of Stamford. who appear | ed for the aunts. asserted that the court i had no jurisdiction Tn the estate of the
 countess, because she was not a resi-
 i dent of the district and had not died
 there. He got out writ of prohibition
 that stopped the proceedings. The
 claims were afterwards settled by a compromise.