The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-23
ER A BIG STAKE.
nokun to Recover Valuable
Everett Property.
: 80 " A hALF-eReEU HEIR.
- 1900 = Yoslsr Wnl Case Over.
-a~n-ssRsAdy" LsDs's Leng Ben
&meo-Reoi Estate ouits.

ns1son vas received from 6nohom-
"a urJiay that considerable interest il
49, - n the suit of Victor e. Kro-
1890 frank P. Friday. the Rucker
- asd Hsnry Hewitt. IT,, which will
- 49, heeefs Judge Denney in that city
Suoa. Tie suit II 70 regain posses
S p ~ Kroner estate consisting Of
49, q lad n the heart Of Everett.
~ rsIl fse1oey. the Monte Cristo hotel
- e - water front Of the city 10
<-.sIea = TIE tract, and IT. value II
,S1eand e O. $4,000. The suit 10 inter.
1f.~ not only q occount of the large
-s~.f involved. III $50 from the promi-
49, q u pestiea Il also promises to
e - Z - ns1t 11ttsriy contested cases
s de histoey = - county. Gen. Bar
M. of Nsw Ymt: Brown 4 Brownsll 4
noo,its,a Pstehrd. Stevens q Grosscup.
= $3.50 eppoaring for the defendants.
80 - Iis, sx-Judgs Lichtenbere and
q = Dusisieh VIII appear to try the case
mthe plaintiff.
n Ind IN question was filed on BY
rlrkfne .. KRONER, on May ., 1870.
to - 3 pioneer settler Of this sec
-. Cd bad resided on the land - far
~ = ~ years before 1t was surveyed.
hvm vel Known throughout the coun-
-. cpd o. his land was the first telegraph
Gwk ~ nei4hhorhood. in which Kro-
- NJ H. fsst operator. He proved mp
= - lsn4 "a October q, 1870, and OBJ
hlsof HI patsnt on December 80. ls7a
g usnmbsF q, 1876, five days prior 70
1ntnmg bis patent, he went before .
fIoD = The peoos and was married 10 IN
ln1faa woman named Emma Kanouse,
- unon ha had besn living for several
- The justice who married them was
- Frost. and II now dead, but was .
dneoe. and Tor years justice Of the peace
ounkiltso. The fact that KRONER, who
ens highly educated man and came Of .
~ New York family, should have mar
- squav. u surprising, but has nu-
$3.50 parallels In the early history Of
r eeand country. though few of these
noHiaeos vsre made binding By any
Deny. However. he took the step
- Installed his wife in his houss in
~ b lived In comfort, surrounded BY
oneary which Was the wonder Of those
6gA After number Of years the condi-
tm4 Kromer's health induced him to
~ trip to Portland, where he died on
1ag1st 81, 1855 His body was brought
~ and buried under the auspices of the
lDisnt Order Of United Workmen.
Nm be left for Portland, however, .
bsy4 was summoned, and KRONER made
ssal By which he left the land to his son,
yhtr = Kroner. It vas provided in the
~ thAt the land should not b sold until
0bcy came Of age. but the wife and other
oaazen should DO allowed to live and
- their homo upon 1t. and should re-
- any income derived from IL until
~ should marry or Victor attain his
uRity. After Kromer's death the will
Wsdmitted to probate and J. H. Flask
q il 6nohomish, who was then county
m4log. qualified Is executor and 40
GHdian of the bow Victor. On Decem-
hNs 1889. about FIVE years after the will
- sdmitted to probate, PlaAkett petit
e1ed the court for permission to sell the
- md put the proceeds into . better in
Mtment
hh alleged in the suit now pending that
VI. Rucker and B. J. Rucker and Henry
Aesist. IT,. urged his mother to contest
~ application on the ground that the
Ind was community property. On this
~ the executors petition was contested
~ denied. Shortly after Frank p. Fri
~, who 10 alleged in the complaint to
Ays been acting in tho interest Of the
Fuckers and Hewitt. induced the widow to
live him quit claim deed to an undivided
Aaf a the property. After obtaining this
novsyance. on May IL. 1890, Friday began
sputition suit. claiming to be the owner
~ half interest in the land. In an an
wG filed In this suit by Plaskett ~
rafdian for the boy the allegations of the
0npaint were admitted. but no proof
w admitted. Judgment was rendered
edesiag the sale of tho land. which
~ bought in by Friday. the boy
txtor, then about IA years Of age, receiv-
hs&SO a. his share. The next step in
= proceedings was for Friday to deed
a<haifof the land to the Fucker brothers
ID Henry Hewitt, jr.
In the pending action the boy seeks to
- aside the partition proceedings and to
aaeel and annul all outstanding deeds,
aseng that the proceedings for . parti-
aoo are void, as no evidence was intro
sseed Is TO the nature of Fridays title.
sao that no judgment in such case could
wandered against an infant without &C.
va proof. 1t is also alleged that the
a'eksrs and Hewitt conspired to deceive
q court by conceaiing the true condition
Fridays title. The defendants claim
sa1 they are innocent purchasers, having
- no knowledge OF facts sufficient to put
ZEN on their guard when they purchased
property. and that they in good faith