New Britain herald., 1916-07-20
EMO WILL BROKEN;
 COLUMBIA LOSES
College Deprived of Over S5,0O0,-
 900 by Decision Of Jury


 l from $5,O0O,OO0 to s7,OO0,0OO late yesterday when the will of Amos F. Enc, executed June IS, 1915, was set , aside by a jury before Surrogate Cohalan. The trial of the will contest begun by nephews and nieces and other relatives of MT. Enc lasted more than eight weeks. The jury, after de- liberating four hours, reported that MT. Emo was not mentally competent to execute a will at the time he signed the document.
 Ehe will contest involved at least 12,000,0OO and is said to have been one of the largest brought in this country. The contestants produced more than 200 witnesses to testify that MT. Emo was not in his right mind during the last year of his life. Alienists said he suffered from senile dementia and friends and employees who had often seen the wealthy real estate owner said he had acted in a strange manner. To offset this evil dence the proponents brought forward nearly 200 persons who said MT. Emo was a normal man up to the day of his death. Noted aienists replied to the other noted alienists that MT. Enc vas entirely sane.
 Clifford Pinchot and Amos R. F. Pinchot, nephews of MT. Emo, each of whom wins more than $1,O00,000 by the verdict, were in hand, together with other contestants, when the jurors returned. The, court room be- came scene of jubilation as soon as Surrogate CohaIan had dismissed the perfunctory request of Wallace Mac Farlane, for Columbia University, to set aside the verdict on the ground that it was against the weight of evil dence.
 Will Now Offer 1914 Will.
 The contestants now will offer for probate a will executed by MT. Emo in January, 1914, in which Columbia, University is not mentioned. By the will which now is set aside Columbia, received the entire residuary estate, Relatives were immediately in arms on hearing of the will, asserting that MT. Enc must have been influenced while mentally unsound by Lucius H. Beers and William Mitchell, the executors. The nephews and nieces asserted that throughout his life MT. Emo had been particularly averse to colleges, except those which taught specific trades. He dubbed all college men "loafers and drunkards,' accord ing to dozen witnesses.
 Both by the terms of an agreement made with the contestants of the will and by the terms of the January, 1914. document, which they will seek to probate, Columbia University is the only heavy loser. The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, which loses $1,800,0OO by the contest, re- ceives a legacy of s2,OO0,0OO in the January, 1914, will.
 John B. Stanchfie1d, chief of coun- sel for the contestants, announced that all institutions but Colum bia would lose nothing by the contest Thus the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural His tory and the Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor each will receive s250,0O0. The New York Public Library will receive s5O,OOO together with any books, paintings and prints which it desires to take from the large Emo collection.
 Army of Contestants
 
 were William P Enc, of SaugatuclS, Conn.,, a brother of MT. Emo, repre- sented by Simpson, Thacher & Bar rett; Clifford Pinchot, nephew, of Milford, Pa; Amos R. E. Pinchot, nephew, of No. 22 West Forty-seventh street, and their sister, Lady An toinette Johnstone, niece, wife of Sir Alan Johnstone of London, all ap- bearing through Charles A. Beckett; Professor Henry Lane Enc, nephew, of Princeton, N J., represented by Charles A. Perkins and Arthur c. Train Mrs. Antoinette F. Wood, sister; Miss Mary P. Emo and Mrs. Florence c. Graves, nieces, all of Simsbury, Conn.,, whose lawyers were Sullivan & Cromwell. There also were five grandnephews and grand-nieces Interested in the estate Clifford and Rosamond Pinchot, children of Amos 1 F.. E. Pinchot; Harcourt Johnstone, l son of Lady Johnstone, and Alice Enc, 1 daughter of Henry Lane Enc. The 1 executors of the contested will were 1 represented by Henry De Forest Ba1dl- | win, Columbia by Wallace MacFar- l Jane, Stephen c. Nash and Kenneth ! M. Spence, and there were more than 1 dozen other widely known attorneys l for legatees.
 1 By the will of January, 1914, now l to be offered for probate, the entire residue goes to Henry c. Enc and 1 Mary F. Pinchot brother and sister to l MT. Emo, both of whom are dead. | They also received in addition $600,- l GOO each. This large fortune, of no less than $6,000,000 now goes to their l heirs Clifford Pinchot Amos R. Pin chot and Lady Johnstone receive the share of their mother, Mrs. Pinchot, l each having at least $1,000,000 in 1 af aa to lazr