The Daytona daily news., 1912-03-06
FIGHT FOR
EDDY ESTATE
Is ON AGAIN
ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE WILL
WILL Be MADE BY RELATIVES.
CASE AGAINST THE MOTHER
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
TO BE REoPENED IN NEW
HAMPSHIRE TOMORROW

HAMPSHIRE TOMORROW.
CONCORD. n. H. March 6.-Thel
fight to break the viii Of Mary Baker
G. Eddy, who was head OF the Chris
tian Science church. win be reopened
in the supreme court here tomor,
row morning, when the case of Mrs.
Eddy's son and adopted SON AGAINST
the directors of the mother church
Will be brought 10 trial after having
been dragged through the courts oil
Massachusetts and New Hampshire
for the last year.
Before her death Mrs. Eddy made
an agreement with her son and
adopted son by which they were to
receive 100000 each, and pledged
themselves not to contest any legal
disposition she might make of her
estate by win. Counsel for E. j. Fos-
ter Eddy, Mrs. Eddy's adopted son.
and George Glover, her son, will en-,
deavor to show that this so-caled
settlement was not binding because
OF the fact that her will did not con
form with the laws of either Massa-
chusetts or New Hampshire, when
she beQweated the bulk of her $3,-
000, 900 estate to the mother church
of Boston. The kaws of both states
,nrnhibit tho doneadSs0s, ~. bxa.os,e,t of
AN estate, the income of which ex-
ceeds $1,000 a year to any one
church. Therefore, the plaintiffs
contend that Mrs. Eddy did not make
legal disposition of her estate by
viii, as set forth in their agreement
Counsel for Mrs. Eddy's sons adj
vanced this and many other argu-
ments in the preliminary hearings of
the case, and as they lavariably Sc
cured results, the lawyers viii un-
dOubtedly continue their attack along
the same lines In the trial which be
gins tomorrow.
Among the other contentlons thai
have been made by the plaintaffs in
the preliminary hearings and are Ger
tain to be repeated in the trial are:
That the directors of the Christian
Science church, in whose custody anL
control Mrs. Eddy was at the timt
she made her last will, Influenced
her already weakened mind agaiu
her two sons and caused her to MAX,
bequeSts that were contrary to th'
laws of the states of Massachusetts
and New Hampshire, that the Chris
OF charity, but a foe TO society.
vioIator of the law and opposed T.
public policy; and that the granting
of such a beQuest TO the Christian
Science church would be against pub
lic policy.
The fight for the control of tn
enormous fortune amaSsed by Mrs
Eddy had its beginning long befor
the time of her death, when, il
March, 1907, proceedings were inst
tuted IN the supreme court IN CONGO
! asking for the appointment Of II
ceiver for the affairs of Mary Bake
Glover Eddy. The suit was brough
by Mrs. Eddy's son, George "
) Glover, his daughter, Mary Bake
Glover, and George w. Baker, Mr.:
Eddy's nephew, who was legally de-
! ignated as her next friend.
In answering the suit, the defen'
ants exploded a bomb in the camp {
! the plaintiffs by announcing that th
aged leader had transferred all I
her property. with few minor e
! eeptions, to three trustees-Ex-Co'
: sreSsman Henry NJ. Baker, Josia
E. Feruald, president of the Nations
! State Capital bank of Concord, an
Archibald Mcclellan, editor of Il
: Christian Science Journal. McLells
4 was the only Christian Scientist
2 the three trustees who were give
: full power to transact all of her bus
3 ness.
2 The case dragged along for Sc
: eral months, but abruptly terminals
! in August, 1907, when Senator Chan
. ar on behalf OF the defendant
. moved for a dismissal of the suit {
: the ground that IS purpose had be-
. fulfilled, inaSmuch as trustees b.
: been appointed TO take charge Of NJ