GOLD EL DORADO
FIGHTING FOR A FORTUNE. James Flood was one of those original forty-niners, as they were called, who found a gold El Dorado vein in California, and with George Hearst and Jim Fair, courted fame and fortune in oilier speculative fields. Flood died 30 years ago, but his San Francisco estate is still intact, and worth upwards of £3,000,0(10. Nino years ago a handsome woman named Constance May Gavin, wife of a Los Angeles bank clerk, aged about 40. presented her claims "tor two-ninths of the residue on lhe ground that she was Mood’s illegitimate child. Defeated in Californian courts, she steadily pursued her way to Washington, and obtained some recognition from the United States Supreme Court. Recently, the Flood estate attorneys announced that they were awarding her a settlement of £300,000.
While not officially recognising her heirship, they said they made this settlement to avoid further litigation
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 53, 13 February 1934, Page 3
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