The case,which was originally brought to settle a dispute over a will,has been running at court for generations and has used up a great dael of health andwealth in its course.Richard Carstone and Ada Clare have been made wards of court and live with John Jarndyce at Bleak House while they await the verdict.During that time they marry,always expectingh their fortunes to improve… Also living at Bleak House is Esther Summerson, a young woman of unknown origins.Tulkinghorn, the cunning lawyer of Sir Leicester Dedlock,has his suspicions as to her true parentage, however, and only death can stop him from making them known. Bleak House is considered to be the one of the Dickens`s finest achievements.