Interesting Will Case Decided

JolmD. Lewis, hiMil qí the dry-goods íirni oí Le wis, línvilund & (?o., of New York, while ridiiig in Central Park, a yi ar i'.go, wus killed. He lëft a will bequeaürlng il 5,000 fp différent partjeè, aud ti ■ ' thë ineome of his estile, ahout 8250,000 in nüinenrnbered fceál estafo, be paid f(i Misa Bísate Tinrlon Tüylor iiutil sho wns lawfully marrieil. I!' s'neiiad any ehildn-n Ihe estafe was to go to them, and if not mnroed or mu, eliiKlreu whon she dietl, she was to j be buriecl in the same grave witli tho teetator, and that the estáte be expended in clooorating tíifi giaw. It was suspected that Lewie lnui nero blood ui lus veins, nnd the will was conteste I by Henry Lewis wan Mary Smith, brother umi sister, and both f uil negrota nnd cTaitning to be half-Virother nnd half-sister of tho, decettèeti. On trial it ■.. .: proven t!:at Ijíiwís w:ik the son ol' n Virginia slave woman and a Uanadinn, the mother haviiifi flad to Canada duriüg the existonoe of slaveiy iu tlie United States. Judge BaiTitt, ot the Xcw York Supi'eincs Uonrt, his justgiveu liis dimisión iu the eiise. Ile Kweept; iway all the provisions of the will exeepting that t.,ivmg Miss Taylor tho incomc of the estáte anti] Bhè is lawfully married, aiid, ier die has ohildivn or not, tbe estute then goes to Lewis and his sist: r.