Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-16
WINS OVER $l,000,00O.
Hetty Green Gets Title to
property

In Chicago which Had Been in Litiga-
ton over so Years---Mrs. green Quot
ed as Saying That she Has Been Per-
secuted.
Judges Woods, jenkins and Brown, CON
stitutiug the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals, have rendered decision in the
famous case Of Mrs. Hetty II. L. Green Of
New York. who has been fighting for years
to have her title perfected to part OF the
old Gage farm in Chicago, now valued at
$1,000 600 or more. The court upholds
Mrs. Green's claims to the property.
In addition to the Gage farm, which lay
in the then town of Lake, and which Is
now soidlv built up with residences and
fiat houses, there was involved an improv-
ed S0-foot lot on Michigan avenue.
Before the great fire of 1871 George w.
Gage, owner of the property, mortgaged it
to Mrs. Green's father. Gage was we'll
known man in politics in Chicago then,
and was city treasurer Just after the fire..
He afterward conveyed the property to
William F. Tucker, and the latter convey
ed it to John Evans Cornell, who has been
the principal party in the present suit
The interest not being paid on the loan
made by Mrs. Green's father she as his
heir toreclosed on it in 1876 and bought it
in. Mr.. Cornell disputed her title and
bought it in. The main matters in dispute
have been whether Mr.. Tucker had been
property named as a co-defendant, and
whether he had received legal notice of the
foreclosure proceedings.
Mrs Green has been endeavoring TO have
her title to the property cleared for al
most 20 wears. The case went from one
court to another, lawyers and judges died,
and it seemed as though it would never
come to an end. The most prominent at
torneys in the West appeared on one side
or the other.
Tie case was argued in the United States
Circuit Court at Milwaukee a few months
ago, and then appealed to the United States
Court of Appeals, at Milwaukee, which
has just rendered its decision.
Mrs Green, when interviewed at New
York in regard to the outcome OF the suit,
said she was happy and added:
II could have obtained 81 900, 600 more
for this land at the time of the World
Fair" she continued. "A part of it is
near the Fifty-fifth street entrance to the
Boulevard of Chicago.
Il shall instruct my agents there
to sub-divide the 4e0 acres involved in thi.
suit into city lots, and l expect it will sci
easily for 81 600 600. OF course it has
cost me great deal of money in taxes and
legal expenses, but l won, and that com
pensates me for all the trouble l was put
to.
''This suit is part of the almost ceaseles'
litigation which began one year before my
fathers death, in 1865, and has pursued
me ever since. do not court public noto
riety but never shirk my duty when fee
that am being prosecuted. My opponents
have pushed me from the hour that l ask
ed for an accounting of my fathers estate
They hoped to shorten my life as they die
that of my parent.
THE judges of our courts are all RICH
when you can get at them, but the lawyer
hamper litigation where money is involved
They want it all. 1 am a thoroughly deter
mined woman, and the entire Seventh regi
ment with shotted guns cannot keep me of
when once start in to defend my jus
rights"