"THE DEVIL'S OWN."
Fifty firms of‘lawyer? benefit, two of them to the extent of £IOO.CCO (?ach ; from a settlement marie by the Supreme Court of the United States recently, ns a final act in a legal battle that has proceeded for 11 jeavs over the disposal of the millions left by the !aie Mr Jay Could. Payments to tlio lawyers total £500,000. JJy this Same order, a sum of £4.000.000 is to bo distributed among ■dx tru-t f Als that,Mr Could established for hfl| six children. The lawyers represented children, grandchildten and great-grandchildren of the testator. After these payments, the total of the six trusts stands at £13,000,000. Appreciation in value adds millions arm ualy The settlement brings the trust funds received by the beneficiaries to ‘,‘2,500,000 each for the following; (roorge Jay Could, deceased. Edwin Could. Duchess of Tallyrand, Frank and Howard Gould. The lawyers’ fees amount to about 4 per cent, of the total of the tytistij,
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Opunake Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3134, 2 August 1927, Page 4
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