Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-21
CLOSE Of HEARING IN
HUTCH|NS LITIGATION
Arguments Heard and Auditor
Dent Preparing Report
to Court.

as woman most lll-used by the agents
of her husbands estate, in the argument
of her counsel, j. c. Cuttings. late yes
terday afternoon, before Auditor Dent
in the closing hearing of the petition
for an increase Of allowance. An op-
posite view of the case was taken by
Edwin c. Brandenburg, counsel for Will
liam J. Dante. trustee Of the estate
He criticised Mrs. Hutchins for refus-
ing to expend $25 to purchase q chair
needed for the comfort of her invalid
husband, while she spent large sum
in one month for wines, cocktails and
WHISTLES.
Alleges Extravaganza.
Instances of extravaganza were recited
by Mr.. Brandenburg. The maintenance
of a cottage in Scotland and fashion
able apartment in Paris. seldom occu-
pied, and vacant now for several years,
seemed to counsel for the trustee a
needless expense He also declared that
the presence OF her brother, Robert L.
Keeling of Baltimore, at the Narragan-
sett cottage where her i'll husband is
confined has added extraordinarily to
her expenses.
Declaring that the semi-annual income
Of the Hutchins estate. assumed by
i
was practically all disposed of in adj
vance for the purpose of improvements
and payments of obligations falling due.
and insisting that wfYat remains shall
be regarded as the net income, Mr..
Brandenburg said that there was then
only a small basis on which to fix an
allowance for Mrs. Hutchins. He de-
clared her bound by the agreement with
her husband by which an allowance OF
200 monthly was settled upon her,
~ IN
looted her.
|. Allowance for Personal Use.
Mrs Hutchins had never been required
by her husband, said Mr.. Cuttings in pre-
senting his arguments in her behalf to
the auditor, to pay all bills out of her al
lowance of 81 600 a month. He said that
she had never entered into any contract
SO foolish as to agree to maintain her
husband and his household, including his
two sons, on any such sum of money. The
courts would not have allowed such
contract, had she made it, he said.
Her monthly expenditures, Mr.: Cuttings
said, are shown to have exceeded $2,0O
by checks and account books submitted
in evidence. She never was told by her
husband, he said, that her monthly allow
ance of $1,000 should cover her household
expenses.
Whether. the annual income of 500, 900
of tue Hutchins estate is or is not
chargeable with large expenditures does
not affect Mrs. Hutchins' right to main
tenance in the station Of life to which
she has been accustomed, said her coun-
sell He denied the power of the trustee
to evade responsibility for her support
from the estate by a conversion of the
income to other purposes.
Afforded Masculine Protection.
The presence Of Robert L. Keeling, her
brother, at the Narragansett cottage Mr..
Cuttings defended as an eminently fitting
course 60 pursue, which afforded Mrs.
Hutchins the masculine protection that
no one would deny her.
The arguments of both sides were COM
pleted and the case closed. The auditor
will submit his audit of the estate to the
District Supreme Court for final action.
The case will be concluded in the fall.