The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-25
Long suit EndesI.
DECISION Is THE BUGKs LiTIt'A-

From tEe chicago Tribune, JAY 21st1 Il. sss.
mother ana aeeniingiy final decision Was
made Yesterday in the famous Kingsburya
Buckner litigation, i, which Inns been pend pend
ing III our courts for q number OF years.
TIE Kingsbury, estater, when old Major
Ksnpsbury died i'm 1854, was consideIeai
worth some $500 900. IL consisted q
the property now 'knoRn as the 1 AM.
and Kincs6urY blocks on the corner q
Clark and Randol streets, as well as, sone
twenty acres Of dock property on MI ..uat.
greet. on the north side On DIS ueatn
Maior yKingsbury, left tbsf properly 70 lie a,s
two children, the late s fs,e
Of General Simon E. Bnekner,: anu sIns .ia.e
Henry w. ! Kingsbury iatneI 81 .a p5 nseI
ltigious infant. In MAJ, !S5i, saiIs. Dus =.
the .state To her brother and co-heir. Henry
w Finpsbury, who was, then UNMARRIED,
General Buckner, Immediately after the
conveyance OF the property, Joined tne
Confederate army where he gained MS
present title. .-, 80. - 80: 80.
Henry W. KiDgsbury almost. Immediately
ofterWard married O daughter OF Generai
Richard Taylor, a.son OF the ,ex-President'
Unlike his brotber-i1-law, General Buckner,
he then entered the Federal service, ana was
killed in September, 1862, at the battie OF
Antietam. In the December folIoWing-tbe
present infant, Henry W. hlngsDury' was
born. ........,
NJ the war of the rebellion. took steps TO
recoversthe property conveyed oy her IN
1891 to her brother, claiming tnat the con-
yeyance was made solely in trust ana Win.
out consideration. w bile she was engaged
in asserting her claim, Judge Corydon Beck
with, as next friend OF the infant, nlea q
Bill in the State Circuit Court TO SET ASIDE
her claim and to- quiet the title. Mrs. Buck-
nar fled an answer, rs we'll as cross-Dill,
alleging that the conveyance OF the properly
TO her brother was in trust. The case was
decided by Judge Williams in favor OF Mrs.
Buckner, and he ordered decree to be en-
tered reconyeying the property! to her.
The case was twice taken to the Supreme
Court, 4 which, in 1873, finally affirmed the
decree of the Circuit Court, W hereupon
division OF the property took place.. Mrs.
Ruckner taking as her. share the Ashland
Block and half of thedock property.
The next step in the litigation was bill
filed in the State Circuit Court Oh behalf OF
the infant against Simon B. Buckner and
wife, Ambrose E. Burnside, Corydon Beck
with, and Jane G. Ktngsbury, to set aside
the decree already obtained on the ground
OF error, as well az Of fraud and collision.
This case was then removed to the United
States Circuit Court, where it has since been
pending. In the mean time Mrs. Buckner
died, leaving to her husband all hershare OF
the estate. s,!
Yesterday Judge Blodgett decided to dis
miss the bill for want OF equity, holding
that the litigation in the State Courts was
conclusive as to the rights OF the parties to
the property The following is the final
decree entered in the case:
g This cause coming on for final hear
ing upon the pleadings and proofs, and 1t
being suggested that Mary K. Buckner has
died since the commencement OF this suit,
it is ordered that the suit abate as to her,
and it is further ordered, adiudged, and de-
creed that the demurrer OF the defendant
Corydon Beckwith and the demurrer OF the
defendant Jane G. Kingsbury to the bill be
seyerally sustained. And the Court having
found the issue for the defendants Simon B..
Buckner and Ambrose E. Burnside on the
plea filed by them, and no replication haV-
ing been filed to their answer, it is further
order, :adiudged, and decreed that the bill
be dismissed for want OF equity, and that
the guardian of the complainant, Henry W..
Kingsbury, pay the costs from funds be-
longing to the ward"
It is not known whether any steps Will be
taken to carry the case to the United States
Supreme Court.