The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-25
MAY BE CONTEST
ON Under WILLS
Two Filed in Probate Court,
Second Cutting Out Big Be
quest to Brother.
ESTATE VALUED AT $4,000
If Second Will Stands, C. G.
SpaIding and Frank iFriSbie
Will Own Mory's.

New, Haven, Oct. 25-Twor wills of
Louis Linder have been offered in the
probate court and it was reported that
there would be a contest over his es-
tate by his brofer. Robert Linder, of
New York, who was left nearly all the
proper& in the first will and who
was cut off in the second will with
SO and an income of $500 a year for
ten years from the Linder plantation
In Porto Rico
The first will was drawn on Jam
uary 8, 1908. In this will Iinder left
to Mrs. Nellie w. Schwab, who had
been his housekeeper for a great many
years, all of his real estate in Porto
Rico, Internationally. He also left
her the proceeds of a $1,000 life insur-
ance policy, as well his. plano, pia-
nola, furniture and jeweIry and said
that this was done in grateful re-
membrance of many kindnesses shown
and services rendered by Mrs. Schwab
for many years to himself and his
wife.
In the first will James E. Wheeler
was given set of glassware, of 48
pieces known as 1.-THE Grand Dukes
Set which won prize at the cen
tenniaI exposition of 1876.
To Robert Under, then of Bergen
Point, N. j., and now of New York,
was left the proceeds of a $4,000 in
surance policy.
All the rest Of the estate of all de-
scrfptions was. left in trust to James
e. Wheeler with Instructions to sell
the same and turn the cash over to
Robert Under. James E. Wheeler
was named as executor of the will
which was witnessed by James T. Nor
an. William A. Wright and Mabel E.
Hotchkiss,
The second will was drawn on Sep
TENDER q. 1912, and is a very short
one. In it $40 are left to each sister
and brother who survive him. Then
the sum of $1,000 is given to William
Kruger, of New Haven. to reward
him for long and faithful service.
All the property in Porto Rico is left
to Mr.. and Mrs. John l. Schwab, Of
New Haven, on condition that they
shall pay to his brother, Robert Lin
der, the sum of $500 year for a pc
riod of ten years.
All the rest and residue of the prop
erty of whatsoever nature, and where
soever located, is given and bequeath-
ed to Clarence G. Spa1ding and Frank
Frisbie Of New Haven, to be theirs
and their heirs absolutely forever.
Messrs. Spalding and Frisbie are nam
ed as executors of the will The wit
nesses to this will were Raynhan
Townshend, George G. Miller and
John Frederick Baker.
The heirs at law to the estate are
George Dinder of Ottingen, Bein, Ger
many, a brother; Mrs. A. SchuIt of
Neuendorfer of Hoboken, N. j., a sis
ter Fritz Under, Stuttgart, Ger
many, a brother and Robert Under
of New York, a, brother.
In the application made for the ap-
prevail of the will Clarence G. SpaId-
ing represents that the value of the
estate is $45, O0e, of which not more
than $4,000 in personal estate is To-
Gated in Connecticut.
1t is said that if the second will is
not upset,s Messrs. Spalding and FRS
bic are the actual owners of NIory's
It was held by the Linder Realty Co,
in which Spa1ding held one share
Arnon A. -A1Iing one share and Under
the rest. AS Messrs. SpaIding and
Frisbie get all of the New Haven
property of Linder, Mory's goes to
them with the rest
There is, however, an agreement
whereby the Mory's association may
purchase the Mory property and this
agreement, it is understood, will be
lived up to and Mory's go on as it
was Linder's desire it should and
under Yale mems direction.