The herald., 1893-02-09
TWENTY-FIVE ACRES INVOLVED,
"A Sensational Lawsuit About
I: s.1sss aasi Pasadena Land.
The Complaint is Against One Hun
dred and Twenty Defendants.
Ihe Story of the Claim as RecIted in the
complaint, Which was Filed
Yesterday by Burnett
and Gibbon.

= One Of the most sensational land suits
ever brought in the county, involving 20
acres of land close to the heart of Pasa-
.dena, valued now at $25O, ,O0O, was begun
yesterday in the superior court in this
city by Burnett and Gibbon, the we'll
known attorneys of this city.
The land in question has been divided
land subdivided, and sold off in lots to
many individuals, and has all been i'm
iproved with the exception Of few lots.
1t comprises 70 lots in all, being part
OF the Painter & Ball tract, called the
Fair Oaks Avenue tract, all of Hollands
subdivision, all of W. s. Aliens subdi-
vision, and all of the E. E. Turner tract.
, If the plaintiffs should win the suit it
would take all OF Peoria street, about
lpf Esther street, and part of Champion
street.
1t would close up the 300 feet on New
Fair Oaks avenue, Peoria street where
it runs into New Fair Oaks avenue, all
ct Peoria street between New and Old
Fair Oaks avenue, and would take 20
feet off Orange Grove avenue.
The land is within the half mile cir
Gle from the center of the city and is in
the northweaterly part of Pasadena.
The suit is brought by the heirs OF
Charles ]. Dennis, who claim that they
have been illegally deprived of the prop
erty, and that it Is theirs by right. Nat
urally such an attempt to set aside the
numerous sales which have been made
will bring about stern fight between
the purchasers and the heirs and the
case will no doubt become one of the
celebrated ones. The history of the
land and the various transactions which
have resulted in this suit form an in
tensely interesting chapter in the his
tory OF real estate in Los Angeles
county.
The plaintiffs in the case are Frank
III. Dennis, Kitty N. Whittemore (for-
merly Dennis), and Willard W. Dennis,
minor, by ]. M. Harvey, his guardian
ad Item.
THE DEFENDANTS.
The defendants are 120 In number,
and embrace a number of the most
prominent people in Pasadena and Los
Angeles. Their names are as follows:
Ira Bint, Harriet Bint, his wife; CD.
Middlekauf, w. L. Thompson, Louis b.
Thompson, his wife; A. j. Brown, A..
M. Wright, W. s. Wright, George M.
Poston, Janet Poston, his wife; Homer
Morris, George McQuesten, A. j. Wood,
q. E. Langford, d. W. Field, adminis-
traitor of the estate of Robert Dick, de-
ceased; L. O. Winston, Mrs. Margaret
Morrison, widow; F. j. Woodbury., N.
K. Hooper, Frank R. Drake, Mrs. Esther
Turner, widow; Bensjah S. Fosdick,
John T. Jones, trustee for Fl. T. Hazard !;
Chas. Kretschmar, E. @. Watson, G.
w. Cox, John Mesenheimer, @. j.
Kjellstrom, Alfred Nelson, the Kerck-
hoff, Gunner Mill and Lumber company,
William R. Stats, David Mcleod; II.
=. Hazard. F. j. Burge, A. W. Berry,
Max Harris, John Virgil, F. s: Weia,
Harper McKetchnie, Gottfried PETER
Lee, his wife; W. s. Allen, VIM. Walter,
Michael Sandeman, Mrs. Hannah J.
Sandeman, Luella A. Duncan, Savings
Bank of Southern California, Philetus
Peck, W. T. Grimes, Chas. W. Buchan-
an, John T. Buchanan, M. Alice Ware,
Ira W. Packard, T. J. De Huff, S, B,
Tubbs, Rob. H. II. Hirsch, Nels Nelson,
Lucy F. Wilson, Frank @. Betters, Jos.
Fushis, Adaline Fushia, his wife; Hol-
land Manufacturing company, W. s..
Holland, Adelia W. Holland, his wife;
George A. Durrell, Charles Swift, Fred
Swift, Albert E. Pinkham, Georgianna
]. Pinkham, his wife; Memo Hamilton,
M. Ell. Hamilton, Swilla Buchanan, wife
of John T. Buchanan Sylvanus T. Hall,
Hugh A. Steele, James H. Clark, George
Goings, Josiah Throop, Frank Quarles
and Laura Dodson, trustees of First
Holiness church of Pasadena; Milton D.
Painter, @. H. Libby, Mary G. Banta,
widow; j. Rodgers Wilson, William S.
Noteworthy, Adella Noteworthy, his
wife; Sophia @. Buckley, B. F. Mana
ban, Ada Famechen, ]. w. Stockwell,
Edmund Lockett, John F. Mulin,
Charles E. Billings, Kimball W. Wing,
A. B. Hawkins, Silas Carnahan, William
Prince, Samuel Prince, Fred Pope, Geo.
Dansby, @. K. Wood, James CLARK, Sam
Palmateer, VIM. Stevenson, Harriet A.
Holmes and Wm. T. Holmes, admins
traitors of the estatesof Henry J. Holmes,
deceased; d. H. Thatcher, Mary Case
Lord, Lester F. Miller, Harriet A. Der
by, Osgood M. Baldwin, F. W. Thorn
ton, San Jose Ranch company, Rob. J.
Trumbull, First National bank of Pasa-
dena, N. M. Johnson, the City OF Pasa-
dena, Henry L. StaatH and the City
Railway company.
CLAIMS OF THE PLAINTIFFS.
The plaintiffs are the children of
Charles J. Dennis, who died in Passde-
ma December 2, 1881, and Willard Dem
mis-, one of the plaintiffs, is minor, for
whom j. M. Harvey has been appointed
guardian ad Item, while Mrs. kitty M.
Whittemore is a married woman, and
the action affects her separate property
only.
The plaintiffs claims are in substance,
as recited in the complaint. that when
their father died, they were quite young,
and were not of an age to look after
their interests as minor heirs. Their
father LETT certain real property in Pass-
dena, which was then struggling little
town. This property consisted of the
land now in controversy, being de-
scribed then as lot three, containing 20
acres and five acres off the entire north
west side of lot four, block B, OF the San
Pasqual tract of the Lake Vineyard
Land and Water association.
When he died Mrs. Dennis, the
CompI tely Uprooted.
How many remedies there are which merely
relieve without uprooting disease The con-
trast with sterling medicines which such pal
Natives afford not only enhances the dignity of
the former but serves to emphasize the folly of