The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-26
HuRLBUT WILL CONTEST
The Hundreds of Thousands Left by
 Henry A. Hurlbut in Dispute.

The Hundreds of Thousands Left by
 Henry A. Hurlbut in Dispute.
 The will left by Henry A. Hurlbut of New York city who died November il, 1S97 at the age of S9, is being con- tested. MT. Hurlbut was a native of Hartford, Conn.,, and who was classed among New York's millionaires. His will left his whole estate in trust for his two sons, William H. and Henry A. Hurlbut. It is being contested by Mrs. Bolton Hall, whose husband is the son of the Rev. John Hall and whose mother, now dead, was MT. Hurlbut's daughter, and by Henry A. Hurlbut.
 Under the will Mrs. Hall will receive nothing from her grandfather's estate unless she outlives her two uncles, Henry A. Hurlbut objects to having his share of the property in trust. Both claim that the testator was mentally incapable of making will and was subjected to undue influence by Will jam H. Hurlbut. The latter graduated from Yale in 1860. He was a classmate of Dr. Henry c. Enc, son of the late Amos R. Enc, Fudge Knowlton of the Viet'oetSiooVeto ouPlSlIlC SOults 4hoJOi Charles H. Owen of Manchester, and of Mason Young of Chicago. The late William Walter Phelps and of the late John M. Morris of Wethersfield were also in his class. He is veteran of the war. Mir. Hurlbut is 5S years of age, and is a school commissioner of New York city John E. Parsons is defending the will, and the contestants are represented by Joseph H. Choate and Albert Stickney. At the hearing Tuesday, School Commissioner Hurl- but estimated his fathers personal property at $S50,000, nearly all in good securities.
 MT. Hurlbut testified that he had been at his fathers house nearly every day since 1891, managed much of his business for him, and had his full con- fidence. He had duplicate key to his fathers safe deposit box, in which all his securities were kept, and a general power of attorney. His fathers estate had increased largely since 1867, all though the year 1884 was disastrous one When the Second National Bank failed MT. Henry A. Hurlbut sent to Amos R. Enc 8 check for $90,000, none of which he received back. He said his father was careful man, and had never, to his knowledge, destroyed any papers except some notes for manoy advanced.
 The trend of the examination indicat- ed that the contestants will try to prove that soon after Henry A. Hurl- butts death the drawer in chiffonier in his room was broken open by a lock- smith, under the direction of W. H.. Hurlbut, who took the papers and keys and spent much time during the next two days tearing up and burning pa- pers. The witness denied that he de- stroyed amp papers of importance.
 He was asked particularly regarding the stubs of the checks for various sums his father had given him. He found a number of stubs showing that during 1896 and 1897 his father had giv- en him $500 a month for personal ser vices" had on several occasions given him $500 for one reason or another, and had paid for his life insurance, of which he carries s65,000. None of the stubs for the larger amounts were found in the books put in evidence, but MT. Hurlbut said he thought the stubs were in other books and promised to '.