The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-27
Peculiar Suit of Marie jeanette
Against Her Doting
Father.
URGED ON BY HER HUSBAND.
Society People, Army and Navy
Officers Dragged Into the
Controversy.

case, which has been hanging fire for
seven years 1t concerns a matter of
sec, 600, which had been lett to Miss Marie
jeanette Plumb, formerly of Brooklyn
with her father as guardian and trustee
In the course of trip abroad Miss Plumb
became enamored of young Englishman,
and, much against the wishes of her
father and guardian, she married him.
That was in England. On their return to
this country-and it is claimed prompted
by her husband-the young woman
brought suit against her father for an ac-
counting of 100000 The case was placed
in the hands of the law firm of Vanpelt,
Cunning & Goodwin. That was nearly
seven years ago.
The details were so complicated and so
far-reaching that it was only this after
noon that Referee Ernest Hall was able to
file his report. The referees opinion is
that there is 5000 owing to the woman's
father in his capacity as guardian, which
would leave 5000 to the former Miss
Plumb. The details of the case are likely
TO supply considerable gossip to Brooklyn
and New York so ciety circles, where the
Plumbs were widely known.
The referees report is very lengthy
document. 1t covers the whole case from
the time that the suit was begun by Miss
Plumb seven years ago. and brings in the
names of New York and Brooklyn's most
prominent society people. The report also
invo Ives several army and navy officials.
The referee says in his report that the
father supplied the place of both parents
His intercourse with his children was most
atfectionate, and partook more of the re-
fined nature of woman than the harsher
nature OF man. Nothing which ingenuity
could suggest or money purchase was
neglected, and in fact he watched over
them and cherished and cared for them in
way TO commend itself as an example to
others left in similar circumstances" Not
only was the case interesting from these
facts, but from the fact that in Marie's
objections to the accounts of her father
she goes into the most trivial item and
files objections to the expenditures of any
sums for articles which were not used by
her.
Some of these items are for such small
sums as 81 so and in the clearing up of
which over $500 worth of testimony was
taken. The mother of the contestant, Mrs
James Neale Plumb was a daughter of
Abram Ives, who, on his death, left her his
estate consisting of nearly $4,000 in trust
for his two grandchildren, James Ives
Plumb and Marie jeanette Plumb. The
mother was to have the use of the income
during her life
After the death of Abram Ives Mrs
Plumb had another daughter born to her,
who, however, had no share in that estate
The mother, however, managed to save
$l1S,0O0 out OF her large income for what
she called her little "pauper," Sarah
Lenita Plumb.
The mother died in Paris in 1887, and ac-
cording 10 the terms of the viii of Abram
Ives, James Ives Plumb came in for the
income from $1,000 and real estate which
yielded $4,000 yearly additional He was
then 10 years of age. The contestant,
Marie Jeanette Plumb, came in for the
income from similar amount and for
SCI, 600 absolutely from the estate of the
mother, and the youngest child, Sarah
Lenita, was given the $11S000 absolutely
from the estate of the mother.
In 1877 decree was entered that the
father be appointed guardian for the in
FAINT children and that all the income from
the combined estates OF the children be
placed in his charge, to so spend it as to
had been used to living. The annual in
come thus given into the hands of the
father, calculated at per cent, was about
$54, 1000. Prior to the death of Mrs Plumb,
the referee says, Mr.. Plumb was man OF
large wealth, and as Mrs. Plumb also had
an income in her own right the family
lived in New York in great luxury and ex-
pended from $40,0 to $4,000 a year, the
oh IaiY
indulgence which great wealth could sup.
ply, but at the time of the death of his wife
Mr. Plumb met with losses that made il
impossible to support the family as he was
wont to out of his income alone.
The children's means thus given to the
father to expend made it possible to have
the family supported in the style to which
they had formerly been accustomed
When the son became of age, his estate
was paid over to him and the accounts OF
the father accepted without question. In
1888 he married, and soon thereafter, on
account of differences arising out of the
marriage, the father and his TWO daugh-
tiers left the house of the son, at Deer
Lodge, l.. l., where they had expected to
spend the summer. Some time after this
Mr. Plumb and his daughters went to
southampton, Eng, where they occupied
Norfolk House.
In 1888 the contestant became of age.
Just before this, Miss Plumb met in
Southampton the man who is now her
husband, Ramsay Mares. According to
the father, Mares seemed to exert a
strong influence over the daughter, and he
objected to Mares attention. Here seemed
TO arise the friction between the father and
his daughter, but matters continued until
Just before Miss Plumb was to become oil
age, when the father and daughter came
to this country for the purpose of allowing
the former to pass his accounts as guar
dian.
On the night that the daughter became
Of age she left her fathers house, after
having shown unmistakable evidences oil
Affection for him only a few hours before,
md was married to Mares, who had come
70 this country on funds which, it is al
eged, were sent TO him by his iancee. at