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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 196, 5 January 1877, Page 11

Several years ago the good Sisters of St. Dominic established a school for young ladies at Racine, Wis., and by years of hard, •weary toil succeeded in purchasing a beautiful site and erecting thereon a suitable building. God rewarded their industry even in a worldly way, and year after year the Sisters enlarged and improved the building to meet the increasing wants of their patrons. At last the good Mother Superioress was called to her reward, but ere she died she made a will in which, as she supposed, due provision was made for the legal transfer of the property to her successor, in trust for the community. Poor 6oul, she little recked the quibbles or injustices of the law. Through an informality in the will it was found to be invalid, and certain grasping and venal relatives of the Superioress were quick to take advantage of the legal flaw to obtain possession of the property which belonged neither to them nor their relative, except in trust, to the latter. The case was before the circuit court of Racine and was decided against the convent.