The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-29
THE EDDY SUIT DISMISSED
Famous Case Brought to Sudden End at Concord, N. H., by Ac.
 tion of Plaintiffs.
NOTHING TO BE sAIHED BY 4 DECISION
Former Senator Chandler Said tbs Principal Reason for Withdrawing the Suit Was the unprofitsbIencs ss of Verdict to the Next Friends"

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 Friends"
 1 Concord, N. H., Aug. 22.--The fla
 nous suit in equity brought on March
 1. last, by George w. Glover, son of
 Mrs. Mary Baker c. Eddy, and others as next friendsn against Calvin S.
 Frye and others, for an accounting
 of the property of the aged head Of 1 the Christian Science church came
 to an abrupt end Wednesday. 1mrie- | diately after the opening of court IH
 the continued hearing regarding Mrs
 Eddy's competency before Judge Ed l gar Aldrich and his co-masters, Will
 liam E. Chandler. senior counsel for the next friends announced having l filed a motion for dismissal of the
 suit. He said that there were many
 reasons for this action but the princi-
 pal one was the unprofitableness of
 any immediate result of decision in
 our favor upon the exact issue as
 now framed, compared with the buf- dens and disadvantages to be endured by us both before and after such d decision.s
 This was the second day of the second week of the masters hearing upon the competency of Mrs. Eddy Upon the masters taking their seats, William F. Chandler, senior counsel for the next friends, addressed the court. saying:
 May 1t please the court, 1t will dnnbtIpSc ba ,oHaf to tho x,,ueto~e to be informed that the counsel for
 the next friends have this day filed with the clerk of the court a motion for the dismissal of the pending suit
 and that they hereby withdraw their appearance before the masters with
 out asking from them any finding
 upon the question submitted to them
 by Judge Chamberlain. There are
 many reasons for this action The principal one arises from consider.
 ation of the upprofitableness of any immediate result of decision in our favor upon the exact issue as now framed; compared with the burdens and disadvantages to be endured by
 us, both before and after such de. cision. The suit has been almost wholly altruistic in it's nature and not a single dollar Of the large fortune whose existence is disclosed, or which might be enlarged in conse- quence of this suit can become at this time the property of the next friends. There are also reasons, sen timental in their character, overcom. ing the strong desire of the next friends to prove the facts and vindi- cate the reasons upon which the suit has been based-which, however, is now hereby dismissed
 Mir. Chandler then formally present. ed motion for the dismissal of the suit
 MT. Streeter, counsel for Mrs Ed dy. in her behalf, at once presented a motion that the masters proceed with the hearing and determine her competency to manage her business affairs.
 If we are allowed to proceed" said Mir. Streeter, we should show how that on February 21, 1907, Mrs. Eddy began to arrange for the man. agement of her property for the rest of her life and provide for her kin dred during that time.'
 MT Streeter reviewed the instit1- ton and progress of the accounting suit. which he characterized as pri- marily an assault by a great news paper upon great religion-a re- iigion which it's founder had designed to promote after her death by the use of large part of her fortune
 Not one word of testimony has been introduced" said MT. Streetc~, to show that one dollar of the money had ever been misappropriated. The charge of her incompetency has com pleteiy collapsed. It is now stated in the press that the next friends will abandon this suit for the purpose of awaiting Mrs Eddy's death and then contesting her will. Mrs. Eddy has a legal right to a finding of her com potency upon the case as it now stands or upon such further evidence | as she may introduco"
 MT. Streeter demanded from the | masters a finding to that effect | Judge Aldrich said the issue submit | ted to them was purely property | question. He continued
 The next friends having with drawn from this hearing and an nounced that they will withdraw the suit from the superior court, there is left for us to hear and we do not think we should be justified in going forward with an ex parte hear Ing,
 We shall make a report to Judge Chamberlain containing all the evi- ience and the happenings of Wednes. lay. In case we are in error in re- spect to the effect of next friends Judge Chamberlain can iirect us to resume the hearing.
 Without such order we do not .hink we should be justified in going onward with this hearing"
 In reply to a question by Judge Aldrich. Mir. Streeter said he would nka excQnfton fa fhfc rnl{np