The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
WILL EITHER GET
MORE OR NOTHING
Dr.. E. FL. Pardee's Widow
Files a Startling Will
Contest.
Charges Her Stepson With In
fuencing His Father to Her
Great Detriment.
A Remarkable Chapter of Family
History Is Wow n Into the
Document on File.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRAsc1sco GALL. ]

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO GALL
90S Broadway, Jan. 2.
If any one or more of the persons
mentioned and referred to in this my
will, or in any of the provisions of the
same, shall in any court attempt to va
cate or set aside the provision s
thereof or any of them, either directly
or indirectly, then and in that case all
the provisions of this my will in favor
of the person or persons making such
litigation shall be revoked, annulled
and set aside, and such person or per-
sons shall take no part or portion of
the said property or estate; and as to
any Iegacies which may have been
provided for or given to such person or
persons, the same shall be treated as
lapsed legacies.
The above is the fourteenth clause OF
the will by which the late DR.. E. II. Pardee
disposed of an estate valued at $500, 600.
To-day his widow filed a contest, and
thus risked her allotted share, in the hope
of obtaining more.
A few weeks ago Nellie, the only child
of the deceased doctor by his widow, died,
and as the will of her father had not been
probated at that time, the portion OF his
estate decided to Miss Nellie under the
terms OF the will reverted to DR.. George
c. Pardee, her half bro her.
The chief ground OF contest sets forth
that at the time OF the making of his will
DIR. E. III. Pardee was debilitated in mind
and body to such an extent as to render
him incompetent to IN AXE will. On &C:
! count of the nature OF his many ailments
it is alleged that it became necessary TO
give him large quantities OF morphine,
choral and other drugs, and that at the
time he made his will he was suffering
| from their effect.
The next ground contains the following
strong language: "The last will of said
deceGent is not the last or any will OF the
! decedent, for the reason that at the time
| said Will and codicll are alleged to have
been executed said E. b. Pardee was not
free from fraud, but that said will and
codicll were pro ured to be made through
the fraud of George 9. Pardee."
The unpleasant family relations that
were known to exist are gone into at
length. In this portion OF her contest
Mrs. Pardee says:
After the death of his mother, in the year
1877, said George c. Pardee took violent, un-
reasonable and unwarrarted dislike to this
contestant, because she had accepted an offer
of marriage made to her in that year by mis-
father, and this dislike ripened into bitter
hatred OF her when, in 1879 she became the
vile of his father, and il has continued from
that time until the present.
For two years alter he George G. Pardee)
learned of the engagement between contest
ant and his father ne strenuously objected to
and vigorously opposed, the marriage of his
father. He pleaded with his father not to
marry, and threatened to bring disgrace upon
himself If his wishes were not in this regard
complied with.
For about two years he succeeded in his efforts,
his father postponing the date of marriage
from time to time, in the hope that his sons OBJ