The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-19
JOHNSON'S ESTATE.
MISS MARTHA LANDsTREET,
 SETS UP A. CLAIM.
Litigation Commenced in Tennesse, Courts-Captain Landstreet Who Sues for His Daughter, Seeks
 to Break Second Win.

Richmond (Va.) Dispatch.
 TO whom the valuable estate of Presi- dent Andrew Johnson, including his ia. nous tailor shop, monument and burial plot. shall descend, must be decided by the courts of Tennessee. There are two claimants to all the worldly goods that the seventeenth President died seized and possessed of. One Is a grandson of the late President and nearest living descend- ant, Andrew J. Patterson of Greeneyille. Tenn, and tho other is the beautiful lit- tie Martha Paterson Landstreet. daugh- ter of Capt. John Landstreet, of thiss city, and the great-granddaughter of the Great Commoner."
 The s6o.ooo or s7Oooo of property, which includes all the private papers. heir looms of the family. and presents given President Johnson by the American peo- pie, Is now tied up. It is in the hands of a receiver pending the final decision Of the Tennessee court. which cannot be sooner than year hence.
 The law firm of Pickle & Turner, of knoxville, has filed 6 Dill in the Equity Court at Greeneville. Tenn, for Captain Landstreet as next friend and represent ative of Martha Landstreet, his daugh- ter vs. David Patterson and wife, ct al, all descendants of Andrew Johnson. seek ing to annul the second and last will made by Mrs. Martha Patterson, who died at Greeneviue, July 10th, last, as the daughter and nearest relative of Andrew Johnson, and to set up the first will which she made in 1897. In the first will she wills and bequeaths all her posses sions to Martha Landstreet; in the sec ond all to her son, Andrew J Paterson. Captain John Landstreet, the father of the fair Richmond claimant, is Vice-Pres- ident of the United Tobacco Company, and lives at No. 1402 Grove Avenue. His deceased wife was granddaughter of President Johnson. Mis- Martha Land- street: his l4-year-old daughter is a pupil at Miss Ellettsf fashionable school on here two years and a half.
 The bill filed by Captain Landstreet Is a lengthy document. and Is an epitome Tennessee. from the time Andrew John son crossed the Smoky Mountains from North Carolina, In 1926. into the State a ooy IS years of age. with his aged packed in an old cart drawn by. a blind horse. to his death, July S1, 1875. after he had been village tailor in Greene vile, Tenn, town alderman, State legls. States Senator, and President Clothed In technical language is pathetic story of the loneliness of the last days of Martha J. Patterson. who, in the stormy her expression, We are just plain peo. | R from the South.' but whose reign
 as mistress of the White House has since been pointed to as an example of sim When Andrew Johnson died he had | only one child. who fell heir tn an estate valued, then, at $50 900, and now at prob.
 ably a third more than that amount. She | was Martha J. Patterson, widow of Sen. | ator David Patterson. To her descended l all of his property, which was as fol 1 lows The Johnson home, at Greenevile
 nenn,; nedn1i, two % vacant lots in the towr
 4oo acres at Alton. Tenn; the famous l tailor-shop and lot on which 1t stands
 and where Johnson began work as 8 l tailor, and Monument Hill" where sleet l nnrp1 Gn6 of fbn f. arr,tI | When Mrs. Patterson died last July | the possessor of all the estate of the late
 President. she had only two living heirs 1 They were her son and little Martha l ter being the only child of the late Mrs
 Mary Patterson Landstreet. who died al
 Nashville several years ago.
 Five years ago Mrs. Patt -rson sent fol
 Captain Landstreet. and stated to hin
 that she wanted his little daughter tt
 come and live with her until the child
 was 10 years old. She offered to givt
 the child all her property on condition | that her request was granted A con. | tract was made in compliance with this
 agreement and fully entered into
 In May, 1897. in accordance with tht | contract Mrs. Patterson made her will by which she devised and bequeathed al
 her property to the little granddaughter
 The child lived with the grandmother
 until she was 10 years of age. as agreed
 and then went back to the father. After
 she had left 1t is alleged that her son | David Patterson, induced her to make
 another will, whereby he and his wife
 came into possession of the valuable es. | tate.
 It is charged that Patterson Is a bank.
 rupt. having taken advantage of the
 bankrupt law, and further that Mrs l Patterson contracted away her right tc
 make second will when she entered into | the contract to give ner property to hei | granddaughter and made the will in ac- | cordance herewith The little girl prays | that she be given the property upon l this yround