The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
HETTY GREEN
 THE WINNER. More Pleased by a Court Decision Than Receipt
 of Millions. Son of the Rich Woman Can Act as Trustee of the
 Rowland Estate.
Protest of Heirs Who Are Anxious for Distribution All Made
 in Vain.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

BOSTON, March 5.-If somebody had
 presented Mrs. Hetty Rowland Green
 with a couple of millions of dollars this
 afternoon in the Taunton Probate
 Court room, or with an option or the State of Texas for her son, she would
 not have appeared more pleased than
 when Judge Fuller ruled in her favor against the San Francisco heirs in the matter of trusteeship of the Silvia Ann 1 Rowland estate.
 | Moorfield Storey of Boston appeared
 for Mrs. Green in support of her peti- tion that Edward H. R. Green, her son, and A. s. Lawrence of Boston be ap- pointed to fill vacancies on the board of trustees of the property left by Gideon Rowland, her grandfather This property now amounts to about $1,500,- 1 900, and Mrs. Green, by the terms of the will and trust, receives the income and will continue to do so durin~ her life time unless she sees fit to surrender it and allow the estate to be divided. It is not thought that Mrs. Green will sur
 render any of the income yet. MT.
 Storey held that the gentleman named
 in Mrs. Greens petition were qualified
 to fill the positions and asked that the court so rule.
 Hon. William W. Crapo of New Bed ford, the surviving trustee, handed to the court a batch of remOnStranceS signed by seVenty-two of the numerous heirs to the estate, including those who live in San Francisco, among whom the money will be eventually divided. In those remonstrances could be found nothing against the appointment of the
 persons named in the petition of Mrs.
 Green save that Dr. Green ought not to
 serve for two reasons, that he did not live in the State and that his interests
 were too close to the beneficiary. It | was then stated to the court that Mrs. | Green and her son would soon be resi- | dents of Massachusetts, and so far as | being related to the beneficiary was | concerned MT. Green had recently been | appointed a trustee in New York State, | where he was a legatee and more di- | rectly interested than in this case. The
 court ruled that Mrs. Greens petition l should be granted, and hereafter MT. l Green will serve as one of the trustees
 of the big estate.
 Mrs Green learned of the decision
 from The Calls representative because | she was too excited to wait until her
 counsel could tell her and because she | did not hear the remarks of the court. | She slammed a bundle she had in her
 arms down on the railing in front of | her and shouted Good" During the hearing she made so many audible 1 comments upon the manner In which Mir Crapo appeared to be filing the | cause of the remonstrants that it was | feared that the court would take cog | nizance of them. but it did not. After l the contest was over she was asked by | The Call representative about making | a residence in the State, and she re-
 piled that she was going to take up l her residence in Taunton. She liked
 the place very much and wanted to be
 somewhere near her old home at New | Bedford.