Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-24
AFTER BURMESE PROPERTY
Two Wives Present Claims and One
Gets Household Goods.
BATTLE FOUGHT IN THE COURTS
FIeet-Footed Attorney wiss from
slower Lawyer, who Had FJrst
RcpleVined Property OF
Dead Contractor,

That fleetuess OF foot IL not a bad quality
to demand, even when one is engsgus
lawyer is proven by the curious set OF
developments which have grown out of the
death, a fortnight ago In Omaha, uf r. &,
Burmese a Kansas city concrete ccptrac-
tor who also maintained an office iu
Omaha at the corner Of Tenth aud Pierce
streets The trouble all grew out of rival
claims TO the estate NJ the dead man ad-
vanced by his common law wife, Mrs Ida
r. Burmese of Kansas City and Mrs. EliAa-
beth Burness of Omaha, his legal wife.
Many years ago Burmese married the
Omaha wife, and. Up TO the time OF his
death. was on good terms with his Omaha
family several OF his grown sons assist
ing him in his business ventures In Kan
sak City, however, where Burmese spent
most OF his time. aud whore he was prest-
dent Of the p b. Rurness Construouea
company aud Of the Burness Concrete
Truck company, as we'll as being concrete
contractor Tor the Cudahy Interests, he
lived with the other wife in a common NV
marriage. This situation, further oomPit
Gated by the fact that the dead man left a
$4,000 estate to be administered, promises
TO lead to a series OF intricate legal tanGaes
fun of exhibitions OF personal luminosity.
hut Just at present wife number one
seems TO be bit ahead She is collecting
the life insurance, and the Nebraska and
Missouri courts have each begun the ad
ministraton of the estate solely in the
interest OF herself and children. Mean
while wife number two is searching high
and low for a will which she is confident
| she will find and likewise confident will
show that the Joint husband intended her to
| have the property
The biggest coup which Mrs Burmese has
scored upon her Kansas City competitor
was when she secured possession of the
household goods which Burmese and Mrs.
Ida h. Burmese used in Kansas City. And
she has this advantage, temporarily at
least, through ner lawyers fleetness OF
foot When Burness and the Kansas City
woman broke up housekeeping some
months ago their household gooas we're
stored with the Atlas Storage company of
that city, the warehouse receipt being held
by a friend, Or. Nylund When the trou-
BILE as To the ownership OF the goods came
up, both DIR. Nylund and the storage COM
pany disclaiming any ownership. the fight
was on for the possession of the goods
Within a few minutes OF each other the
attorneys for the two women filed reple-
vim suits in the same court, wife number
two getting here frat. Believing himself
secure in his ooup, her attorney, accom-
panied by a constable, made his way
rather leisurely to the warehouse but
when he arrived he found that his best
laid plan had gang aglee" for Chas. NJ.
Bush, the attorney for the Omaha woman,
although getting the later start. had over
come the disadvantage by scuErying across
lots on the double-auick and had rushed
into the warehouse, hreathless sapd just in
the nick OF time.
Unfortunately for the Omaha woman,
however the race will not decade the pos
session of the goods permanently for on
Monday morning in Kansas City justice
court the opposing parties Will thresh out
the matter and decide whether cor mot the
spoils belong 10 the fleet