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Most important was the decision of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court excluding all of the relatives of Walter Garrett as claimants...
When Walter Garrett died in 1895 his will disposed of $6,000,000 to his wife, directed her to have her will drawn in favor of charitable institutions because he did not want his fortune squandered on her relatives or his. Lectured Tobacconist Garrett: "Do not let any scalawags get any." Henrietta Garrett outlived her husband 35 years, dying in 1930 at 80 in a dingy house at No. 404 South Ninth Street, which had no electric light. She left no will...
Case No. 2552. Henrietta Garrett did leave, however, a scribbled "request" to the manager of her investments, Charles S. Starr, who had increased the $6,000,000 left by Walter Garrett to $17,000,000 in 1930. Since then the estate has been fattened further. The note the widow left said: "Dear Mr. Charles S. Starr-Give you my estate and belongings which are named in my book per a/c the following amounts: Give to Henrietta G. Ferguson the sum of $10,000. . . ." Thus she gave away $62,500 to friends and servants, but omitted the residuary phrase...
Stockbroker Starr and Frank G. Marcellus, who claims he is a cousin of the late Mrs. Garrett, quietly became administrators of the residuary estate, but four years passed before a public accounting was made at the instance of persons who became aware of the fortune. Two years ago, when the court was to pass on the audit, the fourth floor of Philadelphia's City Hall was as crowded as a County Fair, and Case No. 2552 of 1932 became a real problem for the Orphans' Court which William Penn set up 248 years ago. Within four months...
Orphans' Court was the name of a relatively obscure London justice hall after which William Penn modeled his Philadelphia court to handle estates, wills and trusts. Kingpin in any distribution of Henrietta Garrett's estate is stubby, scholarly Judge Allen M. Stearne, 54, who went to England to dig into the origins of the court in which he sits. No snuffer, Judge Stearne likes to smoke his pipe when out of the Orphans' Court, philosophize about his work. Says he: "We do have contact with the rattling skeletons and the filth and the slime, yet on occasion...