RENO COURT SCENE.
CLAIM FOR BIG ESTATE.
RENO, August 13
The defendant collapsed, one jurywoman fainted, another shrieked her refusal to sign according to the judge's directions, and the crowd in the courtroom burst into cheering and handclapping at the conclusion of a case at the Reno Court. The judge, very angry, cleared the Court.
The ghost of old Jim Flood, one of California's famous bonanza millionaires, was called up by a suit, in which Constance May Gavin claimed £500,000 of a £4,000,000 estate.
A companion of George Heart, ■ Jim Fair, and others of a noted group of "eighteen forty-niners," Flood left realty and bank holdings to his - widow and children, and Mrs. Gavin testified that he overlooked her claims as a natural child. Judge Buck took the case from the jury and directed a verdict for the legitimate heirs.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 194, 18 August 1931, Page 7
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