The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-23
AN IMPORTANT SUIT.
Proceed ngs Instituted that VIII Effect the
Property OF lc1 Citiznns OF Wichita.


Deputy United states Marshsl James
McMurray was around yesterday serving
the necessary papers on the defendants IN
the case of Antoinette Sanders vs. Thomas
Devereux and others. MIR MeMurray says
it is the biggest case be ever handled and
it kept him in a sweat all day serving the
papers, and then he only served about one
fourth of them. II is a very important
case as it involves the title to the property
of no less than 107 persons. The suit was
commenced in the United States circuit
court in this city and the plaintiff had to
put up an immense bond to the United
states Marshal Walker before he would
turn q wheel" I. B. kellogg OF Emporia,
ex-attorney general OF the state rep
resents Mrs. Sanders in the suit aud
the papers fled are so numerous
that if printed they would make large
sized book The property involved is the
northwest quarter OF the southwest quar-
ter OF section 3 in township q south of
range east, taking in forty acres of prop
erty beginning at the southeast corner of
Douglas and Hillside avenues and extend
ing TO and including the university prop
cry.
The bill of particulars sets up the claim
that in 1873 Lindley Lee of New York
decided the property to his son-in-law.
George a Sanders as trustee for Walter
Lee Sanders, Alice Bates Sanders and
Fannie 4. Sanders, minor children of
George and Antonette Sanders and grand
children of Lindley Lee. The two latter
died during the seventies and the remain
ing enid died in 1855 In 1888. however,
the property was sold by the trustee while
one of the children still lived to Thomas
Devereaux aud deed given for it which
was duly signed Mrs. Sanders now
claims that in as much as one Of the
heirs still lived at the time
the deed was made it is void and also
that she was led to believe that the prop
erty which the deed conveyed was other
property than that held by her husband in
trust for the children. She therefore asks
the court for half interest IN the prop
erty, to which she claims she Is entitled
under the laws Of the state of Kansas.
The property involved is now owned by
the following named persons:
Thomas Devereux and wife Rose Dever
eux, John NJ. Steele and wife Mary c.
Steele, A. c. Payne and wife Catharlne
of Sedgwick county, state of Kansas, the
city of Wichita, Trustees of College Hill
NJ f. church, Kansas Loan and Invest
ment company. Nellie NJ. Amidon, ) ID.
Pallett, C. p. Hodgson, Z. w. Holloway,
Julia \. Calendar, L. 3; Allen, y.
Wheeler. w. B. jones, NJ. +. Brown, j. b
Caldwell, Franc R Dean, Malcolm
Baker, Ida L. Oldham, Mrs f.
E. Madison, Wichita Omnibus and
Carriage company, f. NJ. Watson, j.
T. Sullivan. LON bard Mortgage company,
W. H. Emerson, Lizzie q. Caldwell, John
McCafferty, Peel Investment and Improve
r. !. Wilson. w. {. Snyder, John 4. Nc
Clelland, Maria Sheldon, NJ. c. Hutchings.
Bette Davidson, ;. L. Davidson Mortgage
company, John c. Kinkead. Christina
Whitlock. John Exton. Esther l; Her
rington Oscar II Peacock, W. Q White,
D. ". Phillips, Anna j. Haden, n. Sted-
man. J. W. Neal. Nathan Stedman, Bed
ford Woods. J. T. Cup, l.. Pritchard,
Citizens bank of Wichita, a. W. Lewis; j.
o. Davidson, B. H. Campbell, z V. Healy,
y. f. Niederlander, W. A. Thomas, w.
p. Carey, W. r. Dulaney. K. VI. Bean.
y. A. English, H. 5. W. Richmond,
George l. Rouse, George II. Black
Hall, The Nashua Savings bank,
The Davidson Investment company,
ID. VI. Brown, Mary Z, Brown, the Fourth
National bank of Wichita. \. X. Walker,
j. T. Dorsey, the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Rrilroad company, o. b. Clarke:
James c. Jones, State National bank of
Wichita, Z NJ Billings, the Wichita Nat
ional bank, Louis o. Smith, B. +. McNalr,
\. c. Disbrow, the Kansas Nrtional bank,
T. 3. Jewett and Frank b. Smith as ad-
illustrators and trustees TO the estate or
w ). White, deceased, Chicago Lumber
COMPANY. Charles Sullivan, Wichita uni
versity of the Reformed church in the
United states. G +. Montgomery, the
Wichita and Valley Center Motor railroad
and Land company, John Westfall, Dean
Gordon, the West Side National bank, j;
Bentley, LaQuincy Phillips and Edward
ID. Keep as administrators of the estate OF
lanes Phillips deceased. J. q. Trimble.
Edwin ID. Mum and wife Sarah j. Mum.