Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-31

| Paine May Sell oil Engine Compa- ny's Aeconnts--tts caring in WIikin- son Win Centsst- Grsenissf Boy Still Alive. There was special session of the tsuperior court in this city Friday luorning, Judge Milton A. Shumway Ipresiding. Three matters were dis
 Ella NJ. stoddard of Sterling was granted an uncontested divorce from Thomas Stoddard Oh the grounds of | intolerable cruelty. Attorney A: O.. Stoddard. &
 Receiver Given Power to sell.
 <The application of John A. Paine, receiver of the International oil En- zine company, for authority to sell at private sale the uncollected accounts ! of the compa1iy and one 20-horsepower l oil engine was granted, as was also | his application for permission to ac- cept an offer of s250 for the same. Norwich Woman Defendant.
 1 The other case and the most inn- portRnt considered at the session was that of John F. Carpenter, trustee. vs. | Mary E. Perkins ct al. This case in- wolves the interpretation of the will of Smith Wilkinson, who died in Put nam November 5, 185e. He was one l of the most wealthy citizens in these parts and owned great deal of real estate within the present city limits. | His estate amounted to about 1000. l The suit is brought to determine to whom the share of Nancy w. Ma son, one of MT. WflkinEon's daughters. who died in Pomfret last year, shall go At Fridays session John D. Tay-- | Tor of Waterville, one administrator of the estate of Mary A. Mason. was admitted as party defendant.
 Mir. Wilkinson, when he made his will, had four children living, all of whom are now dead. I The will named his son. Edmund T., who died December 5. 1891, as execu- tor, and he is succeeded by Attorney John F. Carpenter of this city as trus- tee. The other children were Abilene H. Whitaker, who died in 1874. Eliza | M. Perkins, who died in 1852, and Mrs. Mason, who died at Pomfret last year, l leaving no children. As stated, the suit comes over her portion of the estate. MT. wilkinson's will provided 1 that his estate be divided in five equal parts, two-fifths of which was to go to his son, absolutely, and the other three fifths to his son upon a special trust that he pay over the rents and pronts in equal proportion during the | life of his daughters, and upon the death of any one of them to- pay over to the children of said daughter one- | fifth part of the whole estate to be equally divided among them and in case any one of the daughters died without leaving children her portion was to go to the surviving daughters and their children, to each a moiety | in the manner aforesaid.
 About twenty descendants of Mir. Wilkinson are represented in the party
 defendants who are seeking to deter
 mine how Mrs. Mason's share will be distributed.
 The case is more than ordinarily I important one andt will probably be
 reserved for the supreme court upon an agreed statement of facts.
 1 The following attorneys are inter-
 ested as Representatives. of the de- fendants: To<rey and Geissler of this city, Donald G. Perkinsys Gardiner I Greene, Wallace s. Allis, A. B. Davies
 of Norwich, Prof, George F. Bears of
 New Haven and John F. Carpenter, | trustee. .i
 The Mary E. Perkins mentioned in l the title of the case is of Norwich.