Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-14
FRAUD IS ALLEGED
James Gee Made Defendant in a
Suit Filed Today.
Mr.. GEE DENIES THE CHARGE.
J:O. Parker Alleges That He Has Been
Defrauded Out of sum Of Money
aud Three Notes In Real
Estate Deal.

James Gee was made the defendant
IN suit filed today in the clerks Of
ice by Mitchell & Hunter, attorneys
.cr y. y. Parker, charging him with
fraud IN real estate deal concerning
the sale of a certain lot in the Smith
addition in South Ottumwa, and of
taking advantage of the illiteracy of
the man with whom he made the deal.
The petition asks for Judgment in the
sum of $122.1S and the cancellation of
three notes which, it is alleged, We're
procured also thru fraud.
Briefly stated the case is this:
In 1899 j. o. Parker, resident of
South Ottumwa, entered into con.
tract with the late B. w. Smith, of
Ann Arbor, Michigan, owner of a large
portion of South Ottumwa, which had
been plated, for the sale of one of the
lots or the sum of $3.50 to be paid in
installments of $25 each month. Parker
made the monthly payments for some
time and finally ceased making them
altogether. In the meantime w. B.
Smith died and the heirs empowered
James Gee, of this city, to transact
business for them connected with the
estate. Parker, it is alleged, after a
time desired to make the back pay
ments and communicated with the
Smith heirs to that effect. He was
told that James Gee had authority to
look after their affairs concerning
the South Ottumwa property and for
him to go to that gentleman which he
did. 1t is said that Parker told Mr..
Gee that he was unable to figure the
amount that was due owing to neglect
of his education and asked him to do
it TOR him. 1t is alleged that Gee rep
resented that the property belonged
to one A. II. Moore and that any money
that might be paved would have to go
to him. 1t is also alleged that Mr..
Zee represented that the amount due
on the property was $1,635, which
statement Mr.. Parker believed and paid
$1,000 in cash and gave three notes for
$45 each. payable in one,i two and htree
years, and received the deed which had
been made. out in 1890, but never deliv-
cred by Mr.: Smith. 1t afterwards de-
veloped, so the petition states, that the
true amount, due, on the property was
$1,377.S2, making $122.1s in cash be-
sides three notes amounting to. $135
which was that much more than the
ASsaA NahcuAS AuN. II Is dllSSCu III luC
petition that there is no such person
as A. r. Moore; that the $1221s and
the notes We're gotten thru fraud and
Misrepresentation and that Mr.. Gee
paid the Smith heirs S1,377.ss, leaving
a balance in his pocket which, the pc
! tition says in effect, he is not entitled
Ito. The petition asks for Judgment
COR the sum of $122.1S and the cancel
LAT ~ Il.
Mr.. Gee was seen today by 9 Courier
reporter and denied that he USED fraud
ulent methods in his dealings with Mr..
Parker. He further said that Mr.. Par
ker and himself agreed that there was
S1,635 due on the property; that Mr..
Parker paid him $1,000 in cash and
gave him three notes for $45 each.
Mr.. Gee says that he was unaware
that MreParker made any claim of any
kind against him until served with no.
| tice this MORNING.