The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-12
BUTTE News.
She SUES TO RECOVER
Suit Brought Against the Thorn
ton Heirs by Ida Ash.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
The Result OF One OF the Transactions
OF Ex-Trustee Frederick = Mrs.
Minnie Egan Begins Suit
for Divorce.

The heirs of the Thornton estate
were made defendants in a suit filed
in the district court yesterday grow
ing out of one of the borrows of the
former member of the school board,
John B. Frederick, who became some
what noted for his touching proclivi-
ties during the latter part of his term
of office. The suit is entitled Ida Ash,
plaintiff, VS.. Louisa A. Thornton. Eliz-
abeth T. Puff. John c. Thornton, Mary
D. Forbis, William d. Thornton. Ade-
1aide Thornton-C orbett, Lucy M.
Thornton, Caroline M. Thornton and
Fanny D. Thornton. defendants. and in
1t the plaintiff sues to recover about
$500 damages she claims to have sus-
tanned at the hands of the defendants.
The plaintiff alleges that the defend
ants are the owners of lots l to in
elusive and lots 81 to "a inclusive, in
block % of the original townsite of
Butte, which is the property ON which
the new Thornton block is to be erect
ed at the corner of Broadway and Wy
oming streets. On Nov. a. 1897 while
ex-School Trustee John B. Frederick
held a lease on the lots, he borrowed
$3.50 from the plaintiff, giving as Sc
curity mortgage on a certain brick
building then situated upon the prop
erty at 53R East Broadway. Freder-
lex defaulted, and on July 81, 1898. the
building was sold to the plaintiffs at
public auction for 5000. 1t is further
alleged that at the time the defend
ants agreed that the plaintiff should
succeed to the lease of the land on
which the building was situated at
rental of $40 a month, the lease to be
operative till such time as the lots
should be sold or new buildings were
fcA he lat r,ft ho
sale the plaintiff leased the block for
$40 month. This condition of affairs,
it is alleged, continued until Sept. 81,
1898, when the defendants unlawfully
took possession Of the property and
retained it till Aug. q, 1899. Then, it
Is alleged, they tore down the build
ing and converted the material to
their own use, for all of which the
plaintiff asks judgment for damages
of $500 for unlawful conversion of the
materials and to be reimbursed for the
rents she alleges she was deprived of
for IL months, at the rate of $50 per
month, being the difference between
the rent she was. to pay for the lot
and the rent she received from the
block, or $3.50. Attorney w. E. Car
roll appears as the attorney for the
plaintiff.
Through her attorney. 2. r. Cason,
Mrs. Minnie Egan instituted suit in
the district court yesterday for di-
vorce from her husband, d. M. Egan,
on the grounds of failure to provide
and extreme cruelty.
The plaintiff alleges that she was
married to the defendant at Egans-
Vile, Ont, Canada, on April %, 1894;
that for the past year the defendant
has failed to provide for her, though
he had the ability to do so, and has
compelled her to work for wages; that
on Sept Is. 1898, the defendant threw
her out of the house at 734 South Ari-
iona street, and that on June l, of
this year. he threatened to kill her, and
applied to her many opprobrious and
vile names. She asks simply for a de-
cree of divorce