The San Francisco call., 1898-04-28
T V AS ALL
 4 MISTAKE How Henry F. Emeric Game to Lose His
 Ranch.
Gave It to His Wife, Who, Dy- ing Before Him, Left It to
 Her Sister.
An Anaicable Suit to Be Instituted Which Will Soon Set Every
 thing Right

The friends of Henry F. Emeric, the ex- Fish Commissioner, are very indignant over an article that recently appeared in a morning paper, in which 1t was stated that MT. Emerc intended institutlng a sensational suit to have the will or his recently deceased wife set aside and III which, together with lot of other bosh, it was stated by innuendo that Attorney w. w. Foote, one of MT. Emeric's most intimate friends, had something to do with the will left by MT. Emeric's wife, by which that gentleman is completely cut off from the enjoyment of his own property. The facts of the matter are as follows: About a year and a half ago MT. Emeric deeded to his wife tract or land in Contra Costa County known as the Home Ranch" The strip covered about 275 acres, and the only reason for the gift was that MT. Emeric wanted to make his wife a little present, purely as a token of affection. This tract was part of the great San Pablo rancho, which MT. Emeric had inherited from his father, and which comprised nearly 20OO0 acres, the balance of something over lI0oO acres MT. Emeric reSerVing tor himself.
 Shortly after receiving this present Mrs. Emeric, being then in a rather delicate state of heath, made will, III when, after bestowlng a lew minor legacleS or small sums o1 money, Jewelry and the like, she made her sister reSlQQary leg atee, thus disposing Of all the balance or her property, the 2io acres among the rest.
 Several months after this MI. Emeric himself was taken violently Ill, and as he had every reason to fear a fatal ter imitation of his trouble, he deeded all the balance Of his property to his wife, not wishing her to have the trouble of eX- tended legal proceedings after hlS death, which he then thought was near at hand. MT. Emeric's illness turned out differently from what he ana every one else expect recovered was thought to be improving, grew rap idly worse and finally died on April l, her death being greatly hastened by the fright she received durlng the recent edrtn- quake. When she died, her sister, being reslduary legatee, became possessed of al the property of the late Mrs Emeric, which she had not bequeathed otherwise, the 17,0OO acres made over by MT. Emeric during his illness among the rest.
 Mr. Emeric, his sister-in-law and all the relatives of MT. Emerics dead wife who profit by her will, realizing that It was only by a mistake that the husband had been temporarily despoiled of his property, have agreed to enter into an amicable suit for an equitable division of the estate. This is all there is to the re- gently published version of an expected sensation.
 w. w. Foote had nothing whatever to do with the will. as he did not draw 1t up, being sick abed at the time, and knew nothing about it until the death of Mrs. Emeric. The only way he comes to be connected with the case is through note left by Mrs. Emeric among the rest of her papers, in which she says that if it is necessary to have legal advice in. settling up her estate it is her wish that MT. Foote, being old friend of the family. be given charge of the matter.
 Mrs. Emeric was never asked by her husband to return any gifts that he had made her, and at the time of the transfer of the r 900 acres neither she, her hus- band nor any of their friends imagined for moment that Emeric would survive his wife.