Whitmire v. Kroelinger

GLENN, District Judge.

This is a most extraordinary ease. It involves a picturesque character, Miss Elizabeth Whitmire, who died in May, 1928. As is suggested by one of the attorneys for the complainants, a résumé of her life is necessary to understand the case and to a proper decision thereof. Miss Elizabeth Whitmire was born in 1854 when the present city of Greenville was little more than a country village. She was six years of age when the Civil War broke out. She had a brother, Thomas Whitmire, to whom she was devoted. Mr. Thomas Whitmire had been in business in and around Greenville and…