The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-29
THE BARRON CASE OF OLD.
Attorney Pillsbury Breaks the
Seals on Some Old
Documents.
THE SUIT FOR MAINTENANCE.
The Records May Figure In the Trial
at San Jose to Be Begun
Monday.

E. Pillsbury has been displaced by
George Monteith as counsel for Edward
Andrew Barron, the minor claimant in the
Barron will case at San Jose-this accord
ing to the statement of Mr.. Monteith him
self last evening. He says this action was
taken by Miss Morton, the claimants
mother. He will conduct the case alone.
The trial is set for Monday morning be-
fore the San Jose courts
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Pillsbury went
before Justice of the Peace Barry and
asked for an order permitting him to
break the seal upon certain papers that
were filed away in the upper back-number
pigeon-holes of Clerk Williams back Of
flee, the title of the papers being Barron
VS.. Barron.
1t was necessary that he should see the
papers, he said, to secure certain data at
fecting the interests of his late client
The order was promptly granted; Mr..
Plllsbury went out, was absent not more
than ten minutes, when he returned and
asked for another order to have the big red
wax seals placed upon the papers again.
For this Judge Barry wanted reason.
1t was true that seals were sometimes
placed upon the papers in divorce and GER
tain classes of criminal cases by warrant of
law, but such cases were not tried in the
Justices courts, and he was not aware of
anything in the law that gave him the
right to place seals on public documents.
Mr.. Pillsbury searched the code and
found the exceptions referred to but
nothing directly in point. He said the
matter contained in the papers over which
he desired to preserve secrecy contained
the elements of those other cases which the
code withdrew from the public eve, and
Tor that reason he thought the intent
should be considered and the exact
language stretched a little in order to seal
these papers again.
But Judge Barry not only declined, but
expressed surprise that Justice James
Boland had granted the original order.
The papers were sealed up December II,
1890. They were the record of proceedings
in an action for the maintenance of Ed
ward Andrew Barron, child of years
of age at that time. The proceedings were
against the alleged father of the child, Ed
ward Barron, by the child's guardian. B.
B. Newman.
The complaint recited a long story of
distress on the part of the child mu-
latto, and his mother, Miss Morton, a
colored woman. According to the allega-
tons, Mr.. Barron had been contributing
$35 month for some time to it's support.
but, the child being sickly and requiring
medical attendance and care, the sum
was inadequate.
1t was stated further that Mr.. Barron
had proposed to the mother that if she
would return to her former home at Louis
vile, KY, he (Mr. Barron) would purchase
her house and provide for her literally
to the end Of his days; that she consented
and went there, and that Mr. Barron
bought small house for her which
brought rent of about $40 month. and
further than that failed to provide for her.
She had therefore returned to proceed
against him by law. The suit was brought
for $275 for the maintenance of the child
for one month, land no other"
Denial is made to all the allegations, and
on October 16, $780, the record shows that
the suit was dismissed without prejudice.