Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20

T-HE Supreme Court Of the United States
whose time is so valuable that it rarely
spares any 10 consider matters of con-
tract will decide whether the $500 900 left by
Mrs. Isabel D Nellie eccentric beauty shall
go 10 the dogs of New Jersey or 10 her
former husband, OF Hammond Indiana.
That fortune, and much more, originally
came from the pockets of this Mr.. Sidnon
McHie, who has a contract with his deceased
and divorced wife in which each agreed 70
leave everything to the other. Also he thinks
he further qualified by having "lved a dogs
life for dogs age with her"
On the strength of Mr.. McHie's arguments,
a Federal Court of Indiana set the will aside
in favor OF the husband, disinheriting the
dogs Of $500 600 worth Of bones.
But Attorney Norman Nachman, counsel
for the Fifth Avenue Bank of New York,
executor Of the Will was dog-mnded and put
the bite on" the eighty-year-old Nellie before
the United States Circuit Court of Appeals so
successfully that its three judges set the viii
back again in favor of the dogs.
1t viii now take the highest tribunal in the
land 10 decide who gets the last bark.
Though Mrs. Nellie was so eccentric as
frequently 10 skirt the limits Of sanity and
more than once was examined by lunacy ex
perts, there is nothing crazy about this be-
quest. The four-footed legatees probably
the most useful animals in the world.
They are the trained dogs Of the Seeing
Eye Inc. Of Morristown New Jersey, famous
for their almost miraculous ability 10 shep-
herd blind person through traffic almost
any other situation. Nobody denies that it is
sane and worthy bequest.
Mrs McIIie's viii and her eccentricites
came from the fact that men didn't treat her
right which was strange because she was one
OF the most beautiful women Of her time
II this would help their case any, the dogs
representatives could prove that 10 the hilt.
There are her photographs and portraits and
such other evidence as that the Chicago
Worlds Fair Of 1893 judged her the most
beautiful woman in America.
Sidmon Nellie said so himself when he
married her in 1909 If later he remarked,
Now / know what they mean by raving
beauty" still il was more compliment than
insult
Though now publisher, he then
known as the king" of New York's old Con-
solidated Stock Exchange and financially a
good enough catch for most any beauty
queen" They lived together IA years,
which would be ripe old age for a dog.
Then one day Mr. Nellie got into his
and told Mrs Nellie that he was going TO the
golf club This was one Of those mastery
understatcments' one hears about because he
went right past the club and out of her life
forever.
rich man cannot rnn out on his wife
without financial consequences. Their lawyers
met and finally a separation was arranged
together with transfer Of cash and securities
said TO have amounted 10 more than 100000,
and a contract that each would will TO the
other virtually all ne or she had.
II was nice settlement and all she could
have hoped 10 get from the courts yet some
bp,.r gfa 70, how ,,tffo
self Afterwards.
This canrot be laid to any great love for
her husband because they had long been fight
ing SO that If his had been dogs life hers
had been cats, which isn't much better
The beauty seems TO have, had a phobia that
men would run out on her.
Her father had done that same thing when
she was only four years old except that he
went in a horse and buggy from their home
in st. Louis, Mo, TO deep in the heart of