SERVANT WINS HER SUIT.
Anna Kasson Receives $10,000 for
Thirty-Two Years' Work.
Anna Kasson, a poor woman who claimed she had worked thirty-two years in the family of Mrs. Kate Ernest without receiving any compensation, will be rewarded for her life's work, as the jury, after deliberating nearly ten minutes, returned a verdict that the will, which the heirs sought to break, holds good. Miss Kasson will receive real estate at Eighth and Woodland avenue valued at about $9,000 and $1,000 in cash, which was left her in Mrs. Ernest's will.
A smile crept over the face of the little woman in the court room as the jury returned the verdict in her favor. All day she sat in an arm chair in one side of the room and presented a most pitiful appearance. She was dressed in a calico dress, and her appearance showed that she had worked hard for nearly a whole life time. She had been rewarded for her work by the will of her foster parents, as she claimed the Ernests to be, and a son of Mrs. Ernest had brought the suit in order to cut Miss Kasson out of receiving her share of Mrs. Ernest's property.
