The evening world., 1890-04-03
COULDN'T EWGT THE DOCTOR.
His Landlady Locked His Door
and He Got an Injunction.
Now He Has Leased the House From
May 1 and She Must Go.

Mrs. Julia A. swart. the landlady Of the
furnished-room house, o3i West Twenty
third street, is having q deal Of trouble with
one OF her dodgers, and the little unpleas-
antness has been brought to the courts for
| settlement.
Mrs. Swart took possession OF the house q
year ago. at which time DR.. Walter s. Wells
occupied the small reception-room on the
parlor floor.
What happened after Mrs. Swart assumed
sway wSs told by the lady herself to an
EVENING WORLD reporter this morning.
DIR. Wells, she sRid. agreed to keep the
reception-room ct tho rate he was then pay
ing. 50 per week. Mrs. Swsrt AYERS that
she never received more than S5 q week for
six successive weeks. and that finally, after
repeated hints, the doctor took . small bed
room on the fourth floor at - q week.
HeOtill insisted, however, on receiving his
patients In the receptiun-room. As no ten
ant appeared to take this room, no objection
was made.
reception: room window, and is this little
trouble.
Six weeks ago tenant turned up for the
He Immediately objected to the sign in the
window, and had the offending plate torn
down.
DR.. Wells objected vigorously. Mrs.
Swart did not want to lose tenant, and 80
sided with Mr.. Locke.
A wordy warfare WAS INDUCED in, and the
sign was replaced and taken down again
Finally matters grew SO bad that Mrs.
vastly preferable to his company. and gave
He refused point blank to, 60 When the
week was mp the valiant landlady procured q
huge lock and secured the door Of the
The latter, when he saw this, secured =
screw driver and hammer and removed the
Offending LOCK-
and he went before Judge. Andrews March
l5 and secured an. Injunction restraining
the landlady from interfering with his In
aTu grsss and j.dr egress and also restraining Mr.
Mr S s%ars ana IT, 'fS Goofs Rm@edsiey
secured lawyer. Col. James A. Dennison.
who has offices in the Mutual Life Insurance
When the doctor heard Of this be rushed
He also visited the landlord o. Mrs. SWart's
the house for year from May !.
work, and Is about completing arrangements
will 20 with her, she says, and DR.. Wells
may have the house TO himself.
The injunction was returnable to Judge
hhuAOWo JcotSt0Als lJVth uluch WtIo IeDTe-
his decision. -
The reception room in which the doctors
sign hangs, and where Mrs. Bwart received
the reporter, WAS very b ndsomely furnished.
DO you think, she said, "tnat would
furnish room like this for the uso OF doc
TOR who only occupies four-dollar room
think DIR. Wells has acted very n,eanly
towards me, and / suppose the Judge win
hold back bis decision until the first Of May,
when will have to leave"
Mrs. Swart feels sorry that the matter has
become public, but she in not going to back
out now. She would have compromised
once, she said, but now she 10 going TO fight.
Eighteenth street He says the quarrel, was
not Of his seeking. but as he has had his
office in the house for five years he didn't
propose to be summarily evicted II he could
help ii.
He says that when he, relinauished the use
Of the reception-room he stipulated that his
sign should remain in the window, and that
he should have the use OF the room for his
patients until May l. during office hours.
This agreement. he says, was verbal.
He proposes TO fight for the tenancy until
May ]. when he will become the landlord
and Mrs. Swart will have to vacate.