RICHES OF MAD AUNT

Evening Star, Issue 15513, 8 June 1914, Page 1

RICHES OF MAD AUNT

NEPHEW CLAIMS A SHAKE AS AX ASSET TO MARRIAGE.

Indispensable to his social status and th( fulfilment of his matrimonial -ambitions, Mi .Marshall K. Kernocban. a scion of an old and wc-.-tl-thy New York family, laid before the .Supreme Court there a petition for a yearly allowance of £2,200 from the estate oj an insane aunt. The Court had referred ilic petition to a referee, who recommended an allowance of £I,BOO a year after listening t<» a (hamatic recital of the social obligations of young Mr Kernochan. The 'insane aunt has an income of £20,000, and Mi Kenmch.in informed the referee that tailed lite Court crrruii.ed him the required allow a nee he. would be obliged to resign his mean bei-shlp of 12 New York clubs and abandon ail hope of winning as his wife a charming young woman, well known in Xew Yo-rfe society, to whom he had not yet proposed, hut. who, iit had reason to believe, wa» willing- to accept him if his income was assured. Denying that he was an idler. Mr Kernocban said he followed the profession oi a musical composer. He gave the Ooarl ;t. long list of compositions he had put* lished, and added that his earnings amounted to £6 a. year and the expenses of advertising his publications to £3O a year. Mr Ket> nocbiui inherited £20,000 from his father. He employs a chauffeur to run his motor cart «t, £2O a month, lives with his mother, who has an income of £B,OOO a year, and enjoy* the friendship of a sane aunt with an income of £20,000. The Judge <<-»ys the Mail'), in dismissing the petition, «pro»ed th- referee for his and declared that it was not the duty It an insane aunt to " keep a healthy and athxtic young man in an environment cf hnairr.. Wealth, and position," to act as patron i$ music, or to enable him to propose maxriaffg to any young woman willing: to accept Mm. if his finacial prospect* were assured. If neither the mother nor the Bane aunt was willing to provide adequately for petitioner, the Court advised him to resign his membership of 'expensive clubs and dismiss hit chauffeur.