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Settled. By Mrs. Edward Howland Robinson Green, red-haired widow of the late Hetty Green's son. and Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, his sister, their legal contest for his estate, estimated at between $40,000,000 and $80,000,000. Mrs. Green got $500,000; Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

A surprise witness at the first session was tall, sharp-nosed, bespectacled Mrs. Harriet Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, 66, whose right to her brother's fortune by terms of a will drawn nine years before his marriage has been challenged by Colonel Green's widow, redheaded Mabel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist (Cont'd) | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

A. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks. It seems to me you are all very stupid.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist (Cont'd) | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

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:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist (Cont'd) | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

The 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist (Cont'd) | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

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