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1 Notable Lawsuit 1935

handle is hein.beal/notlsu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A NOTABLE LAWSUIT. BY FRANKLIN B. READ Magna est veritas et prevalibit The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making and wooing of it; the knowledge of the truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoyment of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. Francis Bacon. The suit commenced some three years since by Mr. Frederick Law Olmstead against the various members of the Astor family, in the New York Superior Court, attracted considerable attention at the time, both from the prominence of the parties to the litigation and the large amount claimed by Mr. Olmstead, something over K,5,000,000. As the case has not yet come to a hearing, owing to delays in the proceedings at law, the matter has in a measure passed from notice. Scarcely anything connected with it having appeared in the public prints since the commencement of the action. Through the courtesy of Mr. Olmstead I spent several days during the summer of 1895 as a guest at his summer residence on Deer Isle which lies in Penobscot Bay, of Penobscot River on the coast of Maine; and having quite in detail the history of the cause of action which seemed to me a most forcible illustration of the maxim that truth is stranger than fiction, I take pleE sure in giving the story as told me by ir. Olmstead ana the members of his family. An ancestor, seven generations back of Mr. Olmstead, whose na.e was Cotton ,ather Olmstead, was an Indian trader, and spent a part of each year from 1696 to 1705 in what is now the State of Maine. His treatment of the Indians was always fair and honorable, whereby he won their confidence and esteem. Winnepesaukee, then the head sachem of the Penobscot tribe, was at one time severely wounded by a bear, and Mr. Olmstead having cared for him, dressed his wounds and aided greatly in his recovery, the Chief, as a token of gratitude, presented to him the Deer Isle before named, a portion of which has ever since remained in the possession of his descendents and is now the property and summer home of hr. Frederick Law Olmstead. The original deed of gift, written on a piece of birch bark, and bearing date January 24, 1699, is still in the possession

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