The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-18
SOLD ALL The PROPERTY
William BOuhan Charged With Dis
posing Of an Entire Trust Estate.

The Property Was Made over in Trust
to His Daughter, but She Says She
Has Never Received Any Proc eds
From 1t and That No Accounting
Has Ever Been Made - Bouhan
Charged With Disposing of Property
While Under an Injunction of the
Court-An injunction Granted and
Date Set for Hearing.
From bill which was filed in the SUI
perior court yesterday by Messrs. Erwin,
duBignon & Chisholm, attorneys for Mary
Ellen Bouhan, it appears that the Bouhan
case has taken somewhat sensational
turn
1t will be remembered that William
Bouhau, against whom suit was brought
some time ago by his daughter TO compel
him TO account for certain property which
he had held in trust for her, was placed
under arrest on account of the statement
he had made that he was going to leave
the city. An account of his escape from
the custody of Deputy Sheriff Higgins
has been published.
Bouhan was believed to have gone TO
New York, where it is thought he is at
the present time The bill filed yester-
day by Mr.. Chisholm was that of Mary
Ellen Bouhan against William Bouhan
trustee, and Mary Bouhan, VIM. Bouhan,
| Jr., and John Joseph Bouhan, the three
latter being made parties to the suit on
account of their interest in the estate
which is involved in the controversy.
THE CHARGES AGAINST BoUHAN
IT,, l. I'm. Al. -
made over to Mary Ellen Bouhan by her
| father, April 10, 1889, which Bouhan has
since disposed of. Some of the property,
it Is charged, he sold in 1887 and at other
! times failed to make any accounting for
IL and TO reinvest the money for the bene-
fciary under the trust deed.
| Miss Bouhan alleges in her petition
| that she has never received any of the
| benefits from the trust property, and that
| the proceeds from the portion of it which
| was sold was invested in property which
| was made over by her father under trust
! deeds to her stepmother, Mrs.
Mary Bouhan. She goes on to
s STAT Fab q that at oon,, bill bin - was
an accounting for the trust property 1t
is stated that the property was made over
in trust to her when she was but 10 years
of age, just after her mothers death, and
her father was made trustee under the
| deed.
AN ALLEGED FRAUD.
1t is charged that the conveyances
made by Bouham to his wife
some years since that time
were made with intent to defraud
her of her just rights, that when he mar
ried a second time, he i'll treated her in
many ways, and deprived her of the educa-
| ton to which she was entitled. The
| property involved in the trust deed is
said to be worth about $4,000, including
the rents, profits and the accrued inter-
est.
In pursuit of her rights Miss Bouhan
asks that these conveyances made by
| Bouhan to his wife be annull ed, and that
| Bouhan, his agents and the other parties
to the suit, be restrained from in any way
disposing OF the property involved. She
asks that these conveyances be set aside
and that judgment be rendered which
will give her the full rights to which she
is entitled.
AN INJUNCTION GRANTED.
Judge Falligant was in EflinUham
county yesterday and copy of the petit
ton was sent out to him before being filed
in court. He granted an injunction re-
stralning the parties to the suit from dis
posing Of any of the property at issue
| and set June IL as the date for hearing
the question as to why permanent re-
stralnlng order should not be granted I'M
til determination of the rights of all
parties concelned can be reached by the
| court
An amendment to the bill filed Feb. Q
was even more sensational in its charges
than the above bill Up TO the time of the
filing of that bill only a portion of the
trust estate had been disposed of by
| Bouhan.
FURTHER CHARGE OF FRAUD.
The amendment charges that on the
day after the filing of this bill, and after
he had been served with copy of it and
notified of the proceeding ne conveyed
to James j. Eagan the remainder of the
trust estate for a consideration of
80, 800. He is said to have re-
ceived for the entire trust estate
81, $50. The conveyance made to Eagan
Feb. TO- it is charged, was made with the
purpose and intent of defrauding the petit
toner of all her rights under the trust
deed, and that Eagan was used as the
agent in accomplishing this end. 1t was
claimed he was insolvent at the time this
transfer was made, and that all of his
own property had been disposed of by
deeds to his wife.
Judge Falligant granted an Injunction
restraining Eagan from disposing of any
of this property and making him a party
defendant to the cause. The papers in
the case are voluminous, covering about
sixty pages of typewritten matter. All
the parties to the suit, except VIM.
Bouhan, were served last night and as
he is absent from the city he will have to
be served by publication.