Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ochsner acres nearly $1,000,000 of royalties have already accumulated, and estimates of the eventual total run as high as $10,000,000. Yet until last week no one had ever received a penny of these Ochsner royalties because they had been impounded by the courts pending settlement of the mos labyrinthine litigation in California his tory...
...dazzling signal from Kettleman hills, all three women rushed for the courts. Wife No. 3 asked that a worthless property settlement be set aside, claiming her husband died intestate. Wife No. 2 suddenly produced a will which she claimed left all to her two children. It remained for Wife No. 1, to lay down what looked like the ace. She never knew that she had been divorced. On the ground that papers were never served, she had the Goldfield decree vacated. In the eyes of Nevada law, Wife No. 2 and Wife No. 3 had never been wives...
Both Daugherty and the Ochsner wives were willing to hedge against that decision. So last month the courts approved a settlement whereby the Ochsner heirs got 60%, Daugherty 40% of the royalties, past and future, derived by the Ochsner estate. The estate meanwhile had settled with the private holding company which holds the royalty rights at the moment, the estate receiving 42% of the total royalties. The balance goes to the heirs of an old Ochsner crony, R. H. Arnold. If Daugherty is sustained in the appeal from his victory the Arnold interest will go to him also...
When the Daugherty threat grew serious the embattled Ochsner wives formed a united front, agreed among themselves on an intramural settlement. Wife No. i, anxious to see that her husband's children were taken care of even if they were not her own, was satisfied with 10% the family's share. Wife No. 2 took with another 20% each for her two children. Wife No. 3 got 25% with another 20% for her child. Though several suits are still pending by outsiders, San Francisco's Judge Frank H. Dunne last week decided that it was high time...
Athens three years ago, Mme Helen Coyimzoglu, 35, threatened in Chicago to sue unless he made immediate settlement. Styled by her lawyer as the "wife of the world's largest date merchant," she said: "I just helped Mr. Insull while he was old, sick, hunted and deserted." Said Mr. Insull: "Mme Coyimzoglu is, as I have always said, a very fine woman." Romping backstage in Memphis, cubbish Bob Crump, son of the city's Democratic Boss Edward Hull ("Ed") Crump, squirted soda-pop over Helen Morgan's white organdie Scandals costume. Irked, Torchsinger Morgan retaliated with...