New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
Woman Takes
Fair Millions
ToCourt Again
Dead Niece's Sister Fights
Move of Mrs. Hermann
Oelrichs and Mrs. Wander
bilt to Have Estate Closed
Not Mentioned in Will
Granted Letter of Admins
tration in Last-Hour Move
to Uphold Her Claims
Special Dispatch to The Tribane

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.-Anothe,
.ontest Of the will of the late James
I, Fair. millionaire and San Francisco
.roperty owner. loomed to-day with
The granting of special letters of ad
ministration by Superior Judge e. p
shcrtall to Mary ]. .Lundy for the
.state Of Eliza Ann Fair, which chiefly
ssns!sts of claim against the James
G. Fair estate.
The new action comes as a last min
.se effort 30 prevent court action be
;nr taken on May 81 which would
o,me Theresa Fair Oelrichs (Mrs,
Hermann Oel-ichs) and Virginia Fair
Vanderbilt Mrs. W. K Vanderbilt jr),
daughters. and Hermann Oelrichs
rraadchild of the late James G. Fair,
,s his sole heirs and claimants of
Sis estste Hearing OF general lstters
II administration of the estate of
rlisa Ann Fair, or Eliza Ann THAR, or
Eliza Ann Thayre, as she was also
known, who died July 2S last at Chero-
see. Iowa. was set by Judge Shortall
for May II.
Asks for Charge of Estate
The petition of Mary Lundy, who
lives at 1921 Clinton Avenues Alameda,
was fled to-day by Rufus II. Kimball,
an attorney. 1t asks for complete
,ssrge OF the Eliza Ann Fair estate
and for power to start such legal
heirs of the James G. Fair estate as
will prevent the claims of Eliza Ann
Fair from being outlawed by court
order. According to the petition the
request of the heirs of the James G.
Fair estate to have all the heirs per-
manently established, does not men
tion the name of Eliza Ann Fair. Eliza
Ann Fair is niece of the late James
&c. Fair and a daughter of the late
thomas Fair, brother of James, the
petition states. Mary J.~Lundy is a
sister and the next of kin of Eliza
Ann Fair, who died without will.
James G. Fair died in 1894, and un-
der the terms of his. original will he
left large sums to his two sisters,
their husbands and children. his three
hrothers, their wives and children, and
$4,000 to Mary J. Lundy. daughter of
his dead brother, Thomas, and the per
son who filed the petition in court to-
DAY for the claim of her sister, Eliza
Ann Fair. who was not mentioned.
These were in addition to leaving the
balk of his estate to his two daughters
aid son, Charles, who subsequently
led
The Fair sisters have already gone
through litigation in settlement of the
claims of heirs, including granting al
lowances to the mother and sisters OF
me wife of their brother, Charles and
tie seven children of their aupe, @lar-
garet Crothers, the settlement OF which
Is said 10 have been in the neighbor-
aood Of $3.50, 900. ~
Seek to Prevent More Claims
Their action in coming into court on
asy 81 to be declared the final heirs
vas intended. it was made known, to
show that the claims of all possible
heirs had been satisfied and to block
any further litigation over the estate.
The Fair estate includes the Fair
Font Hotel, the major portion of the
site Of the Panama-Pacific Exposition
and property at Montgomery and Mar
ket streets, in San Francisco; also
s5De0,000 in bonds of the Southern
Pacific Company and large holdings in
Cincinnati and New York and in rail-
Eay securities. = is estimated that
the estate held by the two sisters is
worth approximately s30,000,000.