The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-27
GRANDCHILDREN TO BATTLE. FOR
 DUNN'S ESTATE Milkman Left Fortune From Sale of Sites to U. M. c.
 Plant. SONS WIDOW FAKES PRELIMINARY STEPS Contends That Late Illus band Laid Foundation of Dunn Fortune.

Distribution of the fortune of Will liam Dunn, for many years owner of land now occupied by the Union Me | ta1lic Cartridge Co.'S new 1nunition plants along Seaview avenue, will be the object of a legal battle in the pro bate court here.
 As preliminary step, Mrs. Anna Dunn of Shelton has applied to the probate court of this city to be made
 guardian of her three children, Anna w., John and Margaret Dunn. She is the widow of. John F. Dunn, the eld- ] est of William Dunn.
 William Dunn died shortly after New Years day, and within a few
 months of the final sale of properties to the Remington interests by which
 he became independently wealthy.
 The late William Dunn was a. milk
 man and farmer and one of the old
 est and most widely known residents of West Stratford. The Dunn
 homestead faced to the east in Sea- view avenue near Boston avenue and
 north of the homestead was an ap- pie orchard and still farther north COW pasture.
 When John F. Dunn, married Anna
 Costello, who is now, on behalf of her
 children, preparing to contest their grandfather's will, the Dunn family did not look with favor onfthe match and it was some time before a recon ciliation was effected between the bride and the members of the family.
 In the meantime John F. Dunn and his bride went to live in a house
 that he had helped his father to build.
 John aided his father in the milk
 business and also directed a trucking and moving business which his father carried on in the East End. While
 carrying on this business as an em- pIoye, rather than a partner, he died.
 His widow, shortly afterward, took her. children, Anna w, John and Mar
 garet Dunn and went to Shelton to
 live. It is understood that on the ground that these children are en- titled to share in their grandfather's estate because of the work perform ed by their father, that suit will be brought.
 In his will, which Is very brief document, MT. Dunn left all he pos
 sessed to his widow, Margaret Dunn. The will was drawn by Attorney James H. O'Rourke and is one of the most terse documents ever sub rnitted for probate here. The will is so clear in it's diction that lawyers who have seen it scout the idea that,
 by any legal process, it may be set
 aside as defective.
 It is estimated MT. Dunn possessed property in Ogden street extension and cash in banks totall1ng at least | S4OO0O. The Dunn property extend ed from just above Ivy street, on the west side of Seaview avenue, to Bos- ton avenue, and there were several other parcels on the same side of the street below Ivy street MT. Dunn for many years carried on a milk and trucking business in the East End.
 With the shrewd foresight by which
 the advances made to him by agents of the Remington Arms & Ammuni- ton Co. before disposing of his hold ings. When Charles Beach, who bought many acres of land in the
 East End for that company. approach ed him, MT Dunn decided to await developments. MT. Beach also had been a milk seller, 8. wood seller and
 an iceman in the East End MT Dunn knew there was something more than a, transfer to Beach If the
 deal went through "
 Some of the property, which had been the apple orchard and the COW
 pasture,l stood in the names of his daughters, Margaret and Nellie Dunn, and their father advised them to
 wait
 The price he finally obtained for the property, which is now owned by the Remington Arms and Ammunition Co. and on which some of the factory
 buildings now stand, marks a. record
 for increase in real estate valuations l
 rise in values in real estate in that
 part of the city.
 It is believed that MT. Dunn's
 daughter-in-1aw will set up the claim
 that her husband aided in establishing
 the property in Seaview avenue; that
 while Margaret and Nellie also aided, they received their share because part of the property was placed in their names and they later sold to advan- | tage- As. for former Alderman Will liam Dunn it will be claimed that
 some time ago he received any share in the estate he might be entitled to. Former Alderman Dunn conducted a. confectionery and news business now
 carried on by William G. Wotten in Seaview avenue. Afterward Alder 1 man Dunn bought the grocery store and postoffice of old West Stratford. Attorney Thomas C.. Cough1in is counsel for Mrs. Dunn and her chiI- dren. Attorney Thomas M. Cullinan
 has been retained by Margaret, Nellie and William Dunn, children of the de-
 ceased.