MASSACHUSETTS: Migratory Millionaire

After eccentric, peg-legged Colonel Edward H. R. ("Ned") Green, son of fabulous old Miser Hetty Green, died at 67 in Lake Placid, N. Y. two Junes ago, the U. S. Government collected taxes of $17,520,987 on his $36,137,335 net estate. Four States—as well as his wife and sister—also commenced a fearsome tangle of litigation for their shares (TIME, April 19, 1937, et seq.).

First job was to determine which State was "Ned" Green's legal domicile—New York, where he maintained a $27,000-a-year apartment at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel; Florida, where his Star Island mansion at...

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