Article August 24, 1907 Issue

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF "NEXT FRIENDS"

The suit commenced on March 1, 1907, in the name of Mrs. Eddy by so-called "next friends," but without her knowledge or consent, came to a sudden termination on Wednesday last, when the counsel for these "next friends" not only abandoned the proceedings before Judge Edgar Aldrich, Hon. Hosea W. Parker, and Dr. George F. Jelly, masters appointed by Judge Chamberlin to determine Mrs. Eddy's competency to manage her business affairs, but also filed a voluntary motion for the dismissal of the suit itself. The following is a full transcript of the proceedings of Wednesday (Aug. 21), the sixth day of the hearing:—

Judge Aldrich.—What next, gentlemen?

Mr. Chandler.—May it please the court, it will doubtless be a relief to the masters to be informed that the counsel for the "next friends" have this day filed with the clerk of the court a motion for the dismissal of the pending suit, and that they herby withdraw their appearance before the masters without asking from them any findings upon the questions submitted to them by Judge Chamberlin. There are many reasons for this action. The principal one arises from a consideration of the unprofitableness of any immediate result of a decision in their favor upon the exact issue as now framed, compared with the burdens and disadvantages to be endured by us, both before and after such a decision. The suit has been almost wholly altruistic in its nature, and not a single dollar of the large fortune whose existence is disclosed, or which might be enlarged in consequence of this suit, can become at this time the property of the "next friends." There are also reasons, sentimental in their character, overcoming the strong desire of the "next friends" to prove the facts and vindicate the reasons upon which the suit has been based,—which suit, however, is now hereby dismissed.

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