Word: stricklands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finish. The cabbie claimed it had taken Sheridan 14 minutes to bid a lady friend goodby; Sheridan clocked himself at approximately three minutes. While the Hacker's Board of Review deliberated the matter, a Philadelphia "Democratic Fellowship Club" sent Sheridan 20? "in sympathy . . . and [to] save Strickland, the taxi driver, from losing his license." The Board of Review's finding: the cabbie had overcharged, whether Sheridan had taken 14 minutes or not. Penalty: ten-day suspension of his license...
...bought up leases based on one deed, of doubtful origin, which had been ticking around Texas for 40 years. The company also tracked down some 60 descendants of old Allen Vince, paid them $300,000, gave them royalty rights. But Bumble's lawyers were still worried about Wilson Strickland. They cut off the Vinces' royalty payments, invited them to start a lawsuit which would settle title for once & all, advertised for heirs of Wilson Strickland to join in the suit...
...advertisement produced startling results. When the trial began in Conroe, some 5,000 people claimed to be heirs. They traced their family lines back to various different Wilson Stricklands who had migrated to Texas from the Southeast, tried to prove that their Wilson Strickland was the right one. As evidence they introduced 1,000 Bibles with family histories on the flyleaves, old letters, snuff boxes, muskets, a muzzle-loading shotgun, other heirlooms...
...plaintiff dug up the coffin in which her Wilson Strickland had been buried, took the rotted wood to court, tried to prove that it had come from a Mongomery County pine tree. Most amazing witness was Mrs. Anne Stuart Snow, a Strickland descendant from Lewisville, Ark., who testified that her family's Bible had been destroyed by fire in 1896 when she was eleven years old. She said she recalled 160 pictures and biographies in the Bible, described the photographs in detail, said that Wilson Strickland's picture had been torn out of the lower left-hand corner...
After three .days they returned a verdict that made 5,000 people very sad: none of the litigating Stricklands was a descendant of the right Wilson Strickland; the Vinces had no legal claim. Result: Humble Oil and its associates controlled the property, would not have to pay the claimants a cent...