Woman seeks a slice of margarine fortune

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: May 20, 1999| Author: TIM NOVAK | Copyright information

A woman whose great-grandfather invented oleomargarine filed suit Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court, seeking a share of her late grandmother's $27 million fortune, even though she was adopted by another family.

Sarah Ann Coffee Miller filed suit against three distant cousins, claiming that she, too, should get part of the fortune left by Elizabeth Clarke Newell, who died last November at 101.

Miller, 46, was put up for adoption about eight months after she was born to Charl...