Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Questioned by Lawyer Pennypacker about her age (66). Mrs. Wilks snapped: Do you think that a proper question for a strange man to ask a lady? He [Colonel Green] was older and that's enough...
...Green which left all his property to Mother Hetty Green or, in case of her death, to her. Mrs. Wilks replied: "I never knew about it." She testified that she found it in July 1936 in a safety deposit box, adding...
...Surrogate allowed her to write out her testimony on a slip of paper. It turned out that she found the will among papers of Green Estates, Inc., the family management firm. Then Lawyer Pennypacker showed Mrs. Wilks two letters found in her brother's hotel apartment after his death. Both of them were reputedly written by old Hetty Green to Son Ned. One of them dictated the terms of the disputed 1908 will. Asked if the letters were in Hetty's handwriting, Mrs. Wilks replied...
Surrogate Owen allowed the letter, telling Ned Green how to make out his will, to be submitted as evidence. Then followed a series of questions about her pleasure-loving brother's life which drew scornful replies from Mrs. Wilks. Examples...
...Colonel Green have a staff of servants in his house on West 90th Street [in Manhattan...