Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — EDDY CASE COMES TO ABRUPT CLOSE [ARTICLE]

EDDY CASE COMES TO ABRUPT CLOSE

Counsel fbr Next Friends Files Motion for Dismissal of tbe Famous Suit. Concord, N. H., Aug. 22.—The famous suit in equity brought on March 1 last by George W. Glover, son of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, and others ns “next friends” against Calvin S. Frye and others, for an accounting of the property of the aged head of the Christian Science church has come to an abrupt end. • Immediately after the opening of court in the continued hearing regarding Mrs. Eddy’s competency before Judge Edgar Aldrich and Ids co-mas-ters, William E. Chandler, senior counsel for the next friends had tiled with the clerk of the court a motion for the dismissal of the suit- He said that there were many reasons for this action, but the principal one was “the unprofitableness of any immediate 'result of a decision in our favor upon the exact issue as now framed, compared with the burdens and disadvantages to be endured by us, both before and after such decision.”