New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-06
A BROOKLYN Pack IN DISPUTE.
MUCH VALUABLE PROPERTY INVOLVED.

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EIGHT HUNDRED PRoPERrY-owNERs NEAR LEI
FERTs PARK DEFENDANTS IN SUIT JUST
BEGUN.
A lis pendens in q Supreme Court suit pur-
porting affect large amount OF real estate In BrooK
,yp was filed In the Kings County Clerks ose yesterday
The plaintiffs Mary II. Graves, Eliza & Graves ana
Isabella 8. Graves the three daughters OF KoseWeh
Graves There about 500 defendants, comprising a
or nearly all the present of the tract of land ~
ing bounded by Bedford aud Lewis and Lexington
ave- and Monroe-st This tract contains seventy one
acres and previous 10 1915 comprised the Glover H
Farm At that time it bsonyed - Rem Lsherts In lsf'
il alleged In the complaint, Rem Lsfers agreea 70
sell to Roswell Graves the whole OF TINS .o Iarsn
,n piece in lots or parcels TO such persons az
Graves should from time time designate. The block
however known Leerts Park. which now lies between
Tonpkins and Throop Quincyst and Gates lave,
was reserved for park for the benefit or all the puf-
chaser Each OF the deeds provided that on March III eacn
aud every year thereafter 80 each and every section OF
land should paid Graves for the purpose of regua
ing fencing and improving Lclerts Park Before
November 1892 all the farm had been sold In this way
exc ,pt the park On November O, 1857, LeuertS anu
Graves conveyed the Ieorts Park property TO John e.
Riker Nathan Hos9eh, Edward j. Danforth and John
Clarke under restriction that should not be uscd TOT
any other purpose than ornamental park These
grantees in the following secured from the Leg
isature an act Incorporating the Lers Park Assocs
ton the purpose OF which was to erect and MAINTAIN
pubic park They made trustees. and collected
several thousand dollars from the p1opertyowners TOT
the maintenance OF tho park About 1897 announcer acI
was passed authorizing the association to issue BONDS 10
the amount Of $50 900 and to secure their payment by
mortgage upon the park property. The bonds
were issued and the mortgage was executed anu
made payable TO John ~ Taylor and Edward A. Lambert
The mortgage ore0ossd in 1861 and the entire prop
ery purchased by John " Taylor for $500 Mr. Taylor
began an equity suit in the Brooklyn City
thafI la dlNx
holders in mang foreclosure and in the SALE which
he asked leave to make The decree granted, and
under it on September 90 1852, trustee he sold the
property Archibald Johnson, who on the same day re-
conveyed 20 other persons From these purchasers II
has sncecome by many transfers and In parcels of various
Sizes hands OF the present posse ssors Leners
Park Is 725 feet in 9Th 200 feet in width IL has
long used for park purposes portion only
o. 1t has besn improved built upol. Upon the south
west thres-story building, and number OF
houses have been built the Qnncy-S side; but the
most OF It is still vacant
Rem Lefferts died in 1856. By will he gave all his
properiy to his widow who survived him few years and
also left her estate ny will Roswell Graves ded In 1873
His widow died few weeks ago. and the plaintiffs are ms
ferts heirs against the possesscrs orp ana ac
of the Leerts Park and against the O9
which was sold under the three-doifar-a-year
The only GsS Tsosvsd S Ssftn &
from the Grsveses have settled with then. The
erty sdeesred to be 10 the plaintiffs because OF the
abandonment of il ornamental park that those De
fendas claiming possession required 10 surrender inc
same and that AL mortgages upon the same be dls-
charged Otherwise II Is asked that new trustee 10 sp
pointed by the In the place OF Roosevelt Graves de-
ceased collect the money due from the many defend
ants upon whose property Is the restriction OF the 50
yearly payment that OF Their failure to pay upon
an accounting property be sold TO the same aEd
be de reed that the premises continue 10 De mann
tanned as an ornamental park Among the prominent
defendants who possessors OF portion OF the
lrk property william Beard Frederick c. NrO0lnan
ihe onvent OF tue Sisters OF Mercy, John Deering
samuel T. Tate, Catherine HOwey. Elizabeth p Aud,
Teliia TWbe and AlOnZo r. De BAUM.
Schuyler A. ROckellOW Is the attorney, and James n
AyerliiS OF counsel for the plaintiffs.
Frederick NTOomaD, of No 441 tatcS-aVe ItrOoElyh'
whose honse Is built part OF the Glover I'M Far1n,
said 20 TRIBUNE reporter last evening: NV title 10
The title carefully examined by myself ana my law
vera before bought This land Is not part OF what was
set an art for Leers Park but have never phd the ~
originally required keep up the Park made 10 slcn
covenant In the deed-ahough the deed TO me was drawn
twenty -four years ago-aud believe few II any or the
deeds made since contain such provision SIX or seven
years ago the widow and daughters of Roosevelt
Graves made attempt to convey all the lsnd
set aside this park a man by the name or schult-
teuburger after time he made re-cOnvcTauce 10
the Grayeses asked OF the daughters about II and
her answer was that they disappointed IN tner
title There talk on compromise aud settle
ment bat all from the widow aud her daug nerS
The titles holders of what was once Jne
Clover Hin Farm perfect, in my opinion This pres
en- move on the part Of the Graves ladies eau mean
no hing but an atOnpt to raise money from weak
kneed owners The owners all laugh az Tie ldea OF COM
promising and pay little attention 10 IT,