INTERESTING LAWSUIT.
Hungary: is interested' in perhaps the greatest succession suits that ever came before » court, $ law. The litigation is taking place it Ssa Francisco, but the parties cpnc|rn^d.%e fifteen families inhabiting Hungagg and Prussian Ppsen. They are the family representatives of one Wilhelm Leidesdorff, an emigrant, whodied intestate in San Francisco in 1848, leaving lands in tie very heart of the city flien worth £200,000, and by subsequent increment in value estimated to be worth £60,000,000 sterUng. Only in recent years have the branches of the Leidesdwff family
in Europe learned of what took place so i long ago, but they can prove their relationship, and law is being moved to break the bar of sixty years of undisturbed possession.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7996, 27 April 1904, Page 2
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