Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1877 — The Vanderbilt Will Case. [ARTICLE]

The Vanderbilt Will Case.

Commodore Vanderbilt’s heirs have renewed the contest over the old man’s will in the New York courts, the dissatisfied children again basing their claim* or a greater proportion of the estate than was bequeathed to them on the ground of manias and diseases rendering the father unfit to dispose of his property with fairness and intelligence. More revelations of domestic scandal are expected, unless William H. Vanderbilt, who stands as defendant in the case, shall consent to make liberal overtures the disaffected ones.

In October New Orleans exactly trebled her usual grain shipments.