SOCIETY LAWSUIT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18859, 11 May 1923, Page 8

SOCIETY LAWSUIT

MB LEVI LETTER’S ESTATE.. MISMANAGEMENT ALLEGED. Press Association —By Telegraph — Copyright NEW YORK, May 8. A Chicago message states that Lord Curzon, on behalf of his three daughters by his first wife, has joined Lady Hyde of Suifolf and Berkshire, in a suit alleg ing mismanagement by Mr Joseph Letter and Mrs Colin Campbell of the late Mr Levi Leiter’s estate. Mr Levi Leiter, a Chicago millionaire,, left his wealth to the first Lady Curzon. Lady Hyde, Mrs Campbell, and Mr Joseph Leiter—his four children —naming the last two as coJtrugteea. •Disputes between the heirs have existed for years, finally resulting in a lawsuit asking for the removal of the, co-trustees. —A. and N.Z. Cable. Lord Curzon’s marriage, in 1895, to Mary Victoria Leiter, the beautiful American heiress, caused much interest at the time in Anglo-American social circles. There was no son by the marriage. In 1917, some years after the death of his first wife, Lord Curzon married Grace Elvina, daughter of the late Mr J. Monroe Hinds (U.S.A.), and widow of j.vit Alfred Duggan, of Buenos Aires. Mr Joseph Leiter is an active business man. He created a sensation in 1898 by huge purchases of wheat in anticipation of a rise in prices, making him the largest holder of wheat in the United States at the time.