Loftin v. Kenan

The plaintiff, as one of the receivers of Florida East Coast Railway Company, has brought this action by permission of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida to enforce certain rights which the railway asserts as an alleged beneficiary under the will of Mary Lily Flagler Bingham, the widow of Henry M. Flagler. To understand the rather unique claim upon which the complaint is founded, it is necessary to delve somewhat into the romatic history of a great pioneer industrialist.

After he had acquired a fortune in the promotion of the petroleum industry in America,…