The herald., 1896-08-22
THE E0N|S FIGHT ENDED
Estate Ordered Distributed
by Judge Clark
A Preliminary SK|RAISH FIRST
The Story of the Evolution of
q Note
AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY
A Mountain Of Debt Piled Up by Com.
pounding Interest
AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY
A Sad Case Where the State Takes an Appeal
and Loses
Board Of Supervisors Done Up for $1,000 A
Disappointed Deputy Sheriff-A Lamb
In Contempt-A Court Order
1odified Court News

The apparently interminable difficult
ties in connection with the final settle
ment of the estate of Miguel Leonis are
at last Strengthened out.
The matter again came up yesterday
before Judge Clark on the final account
and distribution and, while there was
the usual disagreements and wranglings
of the numerous attorneys retained in
the case, yet the order of the court was
made allowing the account and ordering
the distribution of the estate.
Before this was done, however, the pre-
liminary matter of Max Lowenthaps
fees as attorney for certain of the par
ties in interest came up. Attorney H.
Appel was on hand to combat the claim
of his brother of the long robe, and for a
time things looked rather lurid Judge
| Clark brought both gentlemen up with
round turn when he insisted that they
should address the court and not one an
other. Finally Mr.. LowenthaTs claim
was ordered dismissed without preiu-
dice, and it will again be taken I'D at a
later date.
BY the decision of the court the dis
tribution of the estate-or what is left
or twill now be proceeded with The
contending factions of the two clans of
Miguel and Jean Leonis has been stilled
ana While George l.. MeSnager as ex-
ecutor' has not been discharged from the
responsibilities of office as he will have
TO hie supplementary account. vet the
maj winding up of the estate will, in all
PROBABILITY, be marked by a ouietude
at marked variance with the progress of
the case to date
IL is rather odd that the Leonis case
with all its legal complications. had its
rise, or origin, so to say, in a piece of
conservatism on the part of the brothers
Leonis. Neither one of the brothers
were blessed, or cursed as it NAV be diff
ferently viewed, with an excess of edu-
catlon or an aptitude for anything save
the making and accumulation OF money.
Ihey. We're magnets for the precious
metals and money appeared to naturally
gravitate in their direction Finally
Jean Leonis became very i'll and then he
and his brother Miguel decided to make
thelr wills. This was done. Jean leaving
all his belongings to Miguel and he. in
turn bequeathing his estate to Jean. The
latter died, but before the estate of Jean
was adjudicated Miguel also was gath
cred to his fathers, Then the fun COM
menced, and the attorneys began to get
in their fine work. But in a compare
tive sense it was even then plain sailing
and not until John Robarts became exc
cutor did the clouds of unrest and legal
clubbing and uncertainty envelop the
estate. Unless that deceased gentleman
is very much maligned ne jumbed
things 80 badly as to leave the heritage
so badly tangled that the legal cobwebs
have had time to drape themselves upon
the case before it has been possible to
obtain an order of distribution.
Mr.. Robarts made a somewhat hur-
ried exit from this subunary sphere
and, presumably, was not followed by
the regrets of the Leonis heirs.