St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-25
A Celebrated Case Now On
Trial in the District
Court.
Druggist NcMasters Mulcted
By a Jur y on the Os-
borne Case.
Cramep g. Coney's Box Fac
tory at North st. Paul
Burned.
Clergy and Laity Will Or
ganize a Branch Of the
Evangelical Alliance.
MILLIONS ARE INVOLVED.

Trial of the Lambert-Stees ReaI
Estate Case Begun in the District
Court.
The celebrated case of Tallmadge A.
Lambert against Washington NJ. Stees,
Anna X. Stees and James S. Stees came
I'D for trial yesterday in the district
court before Judge Simons. This is a
real estate case, the property involved
being as follows: Lot 6 and the south.
west quarter of the southeast quarter OF
section q, town 80, range %, and the
west half of the northeast half OF sec
ton %, town 30, range %, in all com
prising 100 acres. The plaintiff de-
mandS that the property in question be
given back to him, and that $1,000 dam
ages be awarded him as a recompenSe
for being deprived of the property. The
circumstances leading up to TINS case,
which is attracting considerable atten-
lion. are these: David Lambert, the
Father of the plaintiff in this action, was
a lawyer and employed in one OF the
government offices III Washington III
1872. About that time he was advised
ito come West, and did so. settling at
Madison, Wis. He afterwards Went to
Calves. on, Tex, and after remaining
there a short time returned again TO
Madison. lie had left his wife and chill
dren at Washington Henry Lambert,
q brother of David, together with Mrs.
lambert. had conceived feeling OF re-
sentiment towards the wife Of David.
David came to ST. Paulin 1913 and began
the practice of law and to deal i'll
real estate and continued such opera
lions successfully till his death. Mean
time he had brought Henry, his brother,
TO st. Paul and secured for him Secre-
taryship in the first territorial legiSla-
ture. David had bought certain prop
erty on the corner of Third and Cedar
streets in his brothers name. In No
MEMBER, lS49, David went to Madison to
get his brother Henry's family. On the
way back he fell from the steamer and
was drowned. Before his death, how
ever, he had entered on the records OF
the land Office at Saltwater the 100 acres
in question, with memorandum That
the title should be sent to
him at st. Paul. Nov. 3, 1S49,
Gov. Ramsey appointed Henry Lam
bert Judge of the probate court OF Ram
sey county, to which Office he was
afterwards elected, serving several
years. On Nov. 8 of the same year,
Henry's mother went into the probate
court, in which her son was sitting as
Judge, and certified regarding the lands
in question, suggesting trust as men
toned in the complaint, at the same
time suppressing the fact that David
Lambert left surviving him widow and
son, T. J. Lambert, the plaintiff to the
present action. About the year 1850 the
patents were returned to the land
office from Washington in the name
of David Lambert, but in the
meantime the estate had been closed up
10y his brother Henry, in the probate
Court, by alleging that there was no
property to be distributed, and that the
administrators had been discharged.
When the patents had been received,
Henry Lambert, judge OF probate, re-
convened his court, reinvested the adj
ministratriX, or attempted so to do, with
the functions of her Office. and ordered
her under such reinvesture to convey
the land then in the name of David
Lambert to one Andrew Bell. Patter-
son d Patterson afterward transferred
the land back to Henry Lambert. The
attorneys for the plaintiff are: c. D..
O'Brien, Eugene M. Wilson, j. D..
O'Brien, and [. V. d. Heard; for the
defendants, Clark, Eller IL How.