The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
BIG LEGAL FEES TO
LAWYERS AWARDED
SETTLEMENT OF WILL CASES
OF FIELD AND MILLIKEN
INVOLVE MILLIONS.


courts award to the attorneys who
have been representing both sides II
the will contest just closed. To the
II attorneys 100000 is allotted in fees
alone. This is to be paid from an es-
tate which is now appraised at $780,
100000
The contests extended over a period
of IS months, but few OF the lawyers
appeared in court. The total cost will
be we'll above $1,250,000, court officials
said. This sounds like a war appro-
priation, not a friendly contest, one
official added.
To the lawyers representing Capt
Marshall Field are awarded $600,0
These comprise Elihu Root, Stanch-
field and Levy, of New York, and
John S. Miller and Edward c. Brown,
of Chicago.
$4,000 For Ex-Governor.
To John P. Wilson, representing the
trustees of the Field estate, $150,0OO
is warded; Frank M. McCuiloch, as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Wilson, gets $780,
900; Former Gov. Edward E. Dunno,
representing Henry Anthony Marsh,
the son of the actress, $4,000; ]. F.
Dammann, representing the minor
children of Capt. Marshall Field, $20,-
900. and John S. Miller, jr., represent
ing Nancy Perkins Field, 100000.
! Capt. Field also receives $4,000 a
wear after acting as a trustee of the
estate, and if he lives to the age OF
so he will have an enormous load OF
wealth to carry.
I IL. Nf
Field decided to try and break the
will. 1t is the most drastic of trusts
and the entails aggregate enormous
sums. -
Sole Heirs Left.
The two brothers we're made heirs
of the residuary estate, Marshall Field
| getting three-fourths and Henry Field
two-ffths. Marshall Field and his
children are now sole heirs. Attorney
Wilson, in his address to the court,
gave this view of the future OF the
Younger Marshall Field, who is now
70 years old;
when he is 80 he will receive one
sixth of the income from the estate
about $500000; at IS he will get ST.
100000 a year; at 40 years $l,00O,OOC
a year, and when he is As he will be
given the entire accumulated income
estimated at $90,000,000. At so he will
be given the whole estate. What the
estate will be valued at then is prob
llematical 1t is fixed as high as $780,
100000"
His sister Gwendolin, now in Eng
land, has the income of $8,O0O,OO0.
! Peggy Marsh and her boy, Henry
Anthony Marsh, must so far he salts
fed with the 100000 awarded her by
Henry Field before his death. This
issue will go to a higher court.
! Mrs. Nancy Perkins Tree, widow Of
Henry Field and recently married to
Ronald Tree, is given generous slice
of the Henry Field estate.
Milliken Estate Shrinks
The value of the estate of the late
John T. Milliken of St. Louis, chemi-
cal manufacturer, now remaining tc
the heirs is 1922, 200, as shown by
the report of the appraiser named tc
lassess the state inheritance tax against
the estate This report, filed in the
probate court, showed also that the
three executors had received $500,
$685. 80 as commissions for administer
ing the estate, and that 100000 hac
been paid to attorneys, whose names
were not shown in the report. This
makes total of 5000, 305.30 paid FOL
administering the estate up to this
time.
The three executors were John G
Lonsdale, president of the Nationa
Bank of Commerce, in which Milliker
twas a large stockholdcr; DR.. Hanat
w. Loeb, dean of the St. Louis Uni
versity Medical school, who was Mill
ken's family physician and lifelong
friend, and the National Bank O
Commerce. The will provided that The
bank should receive one-half the ex
ecutor's fees, and that the other hal
should be divided between Lonsdalt
, and DR.. Loeb. Under this provision
DR.. Loeb and Lonsdale would eacf
receive more than. 100000 of the fee:
thus far paid. s. -
100000 to Attorneys.
The attorneys who have done mos
of the work in the administration o
the estate, and who are believed t.
have received the greater part, If no
all of the 100000 thus far paid il
attorneys fees, are Irwin Y. Barth, o
1850 West Pine Boulevard, formerly
of the firm of .Leahy, Saunders &
IOlSSI. VI
Park, and William R. Gentry of SIS.
: Vernon avenue, member OF the firm
: of Watts, Gentry & Lee.
Milliken died Jan. 81, 1919, at hi
home IS Portland place. His will LEI
practically all his estate in trust 10
} his wife, son and two daughters. l
they should all die without heirs tn,
will provides that the estate shall 60
to Washington University to fount
scholarships.
Inheritance Tax $o6,4O7.
l The value OF Milliken's estate wa
? estimated as high as $20,000,000 a
one time. The inheritance tax ap
: praiser's report names three estimated
! charlottesville par value, $l5,000,00i
t to S20,0O0,000, the net market value o
SIS, 400,90595, and the sum remaining
: for the family after payments of So.
/ l18S, 6l495, representing claims, execu
tors and attorneys fees.