(as told by Vernon Work Myers)
My oldest sister Lois married Walter Harris who was somewhat older than she was. He distributed newspapers out of Pittsburgh and sold stationary. He had a heart condition. He was 46 when he died in 1936. He had married fairly late in life and died before his daughter Marjorie, whom we called “Nippy”, was born.
Walter hadn’t changed his will to acknowledge Nippy. That made the will legally invalid. He had left one third of his estate to Lois and two thirds to his family. He had gotten talked into that by his family. His two brothers, Harry Harris and Frank Harris, were executors. It came out later that the brother said, “Well, you don’t know how this wedding will go.” But the will didn’t hold up. The lawyer representing the estate kept saying that was a dangerous precedent.
I think that was the first time I ever heard that, “dangerous precedent.” They did make a settlement later.
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