, 1873-04-10
THE. B0STW[Ck SUITS.
The War Renewed Vigorously and
Earnestly.
Amended Bills Filed Against SKIN
ner Et Al.


The amended bills On the Bostwick suits have
been filed by 11r. Robey. Whilst they make
rzther unintercstng matter for the general
reader, they will possess an attraction for those
who hold real estate in the city, and to the many
who are watching the NUTS with curiosity as to
the means NJ. Robey has discovered of placing
his case in improved position before the
Court Both the Hess and Skinner bills have
been very much altered and simplifed and each
bill now furnishes a comprehensive and at the
same time straightforward and intel1igible state
ment Of the plaintiffs claims. much that was
irrelevant and confusing having been eliminated.
The bills as amended are boing printed, and will
be ready ehortly-
The name OF tho widow is not included among
those Of tho neW conplaina2ts, in accordance
with ruling Of the court at carly stage in the
proceedings. After reciting the names, tho
complainants plunge, without preface, into tho
allegations. They affirm that they are informed,
and verify believe, that Mark Skinner, on the 1et
May, 1855, wns tho owner of the southwest
quarter Of Sec. IA, ss, IA, Gn. the Skinner
suit the property in the Hess suit being also
set forth in the same style, which he, by deed,
sold for the consideration Of $4,000 to John
BostNick.
The residence and undertakings Of John Bost-
wick are set forth, shorn, however, of some Of
the beautiful language that first embellished
them The trip Of Bostwick to Chicago, for
business purposes, is next described, md his
going to board with Benjamin F. Downing, Of
tlis city, On or about the 18th of August, 1855,
chiefly to attend to the above and other land ven
lures in which he Was engaged, his family not
being made aware OF what particular lands he
II Of Cook He is described as boarding with
Downing until the time Of his death. Wien
he went to Chicago he WAS man Of robust
health, and it is related here, as in
The original bill, that By an accident, with which
his family were not made acquainted until too
late, namely, the fall through the hatch Of
steamboat, he gradually failed in health until ho
became totally unconsciouss> He sank 80 low
that he shortly became para1yzed, and when 10
was in this state his wife WIS sent for.
The particulars Of the death sceno are already.
familiar to the reader; they are given in the
amended bills in very much the same language
as II the original, with the exception that they
are not quite SO graphic. It will be rcmem-
bered that it was alleged that Mrs. Bostwick
was sent for late in the month Of August, 1855,
and that her husband died without revealing
the success he had accomplished in his land ven
ture, and leaving lis wife in ontiro ignorance Of
what he had done as to the purchase of the par
ticular lands in question The death took place
on the 18th Of September 1855, and HRS. Bost-
wick was sent to her homo, in Upper Alton.
Madison Comfy, at the cost Of Paul Cornell,
who had been engaged in business With a1r.
Bostwick.
1tis assumed in this bill, es in the original,
that Cornell and Downing being the only parties
cognizant OF the purchase of land from Skinner
Except the latter md his wife, from themselves)
the deed never having been produced By them,
rf hy {foTa n c1Y. md
by Downing and Cornell afterwa1d, act
ing in concert for tue possession OF
DostWicks estate, that they must necessarily
have taken fraudulent possession Of the decd
for purposes Of then own, and concealed it from
the widow. However this may be, much the
came charges nro made as before, with some
slight notifications, down to the time that pro-
<eedings we're Instituted BY Downing for admin
1Bt1atlon OF tho estate OF BpstW1ck, III Cook
County Court. Here, reference to the other
properly in the Hoss bill; for We have been
hitherto dealing with the Skinner biD is made.
It Is related tint Bost"1ck was, at the time Of
his death, the purchaser and IN possession
or the eighty acres composing the west
1an OF Tue eoutn"ess quarter OF Sec. J,
~, 4, on which ne built two houses,
nno maze improvements, on the latter OF which
ne oMeu various sums o. money Ehen death cut
6% Ga 3h 1ne a @ m e o. s VARIOUS un
land.
1t Is related that a. me t1mo Downing com
menced proceedings IN tho county Court Of Cook
Iourty, peduouing, as creditor Tor admlnia-
t1ation OF Bostwicks estate, he vas not credit
or, having been pald N tua ;i the whole OF 'his
claim; The amended Dill goes at great
length 1n1o tbs n questlon, as vel as INTO the
jurisdiction OF tho County Court, affirming that
the proceedings were vold 1or many reasons,
among them because bost"1cks property
ana pe1sonaitg Me1e oesct1oe9 ny lowing as be.
ing altnatea "a 1 M'tnn 6 Goox Ok county, 1nstead OF
partly IN Cook county and partly IN Madison
County; that tae 1an1ly Knew nothing Of the
proceedings ana t9at a.! tnat "as tnen and there
cone was "ltnoue lu!1salct1on, anq 1or the 1nI-
tner reason that Mauo Nas pfactlsed, all OF which
1s entered INTO WITH great mi4uteness; ~
LOWING - 1epleson1eo % 1aFng nleo 1ne ~
Sentory 9t the real estate, including the proper
y mere clameo, 1epresen1lng me tltlo 70 90 dc-
Hqea from oklIneI, anu 1nae re same was Sud
9ect to an agreemaens 1or sale OF halt OF eection
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