The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-04
mrs. CUMMINGS
|. WILL SUE FOR
MILLIONS
Welt known PensacoIian Claims
Title to Chicago Lake Front
Property.

The Chicago Journal of August 81,
contains double4column picture of
Mrs Sallie E. Cummdns, of this city
| and the following account of an i'm
portant suit which she has just filed
in Chicago, involving some $4,000.
600 in real estate there:
MiIlionairess from Pensacola.
Suits are about to be fled in Chdca-
go by Mrs. Salhe e Cummings, a.
milliOnairess from Pensacola Fla, in
which she expects to prove her claims
to eight acres of land in Streeterville
Her suits will involve 10000, 900.
and she expects to make her fight for
the land a test case, which will es,
tablsh forever the ownership of the
land claimed by Capt. Streeter and
numerous others.
The suit will be filed against the
city of Chicago, the Lincoln Park com
missioners, the Farwell estate, the
Fairbank estate, and the Palmer es-
| tate. Her attorney in the case is w.
G. Anderson, 119 La Sale street, who
represented Mrs. Streeter in the fam
GUS Streeterville fights.
Is Noted Woman.
| Mrs. Cummings Is one of the most
noted women in the South. She Is
the editor of Florida Rambler" and
the Walking Sum-" published at De
Funiak Springs, and for years has
been associated with leading south
erners. She asserted today when she
arrived in the city her suit was for
the purpose Of establishing the own
ership of Streeterville property.
| Should she win her suit the long
complications which have attended the
question of rights to the property in
! question will end after thirty years of
litigation
Should she establish clear claim
| to the lots purchased by her from
| Captain Streeter fifteen years ago.
Mrs. Cummings holdings will be
worth 100000. She originally paid
IS, 900 for the property, most of which
| Lies along Erie and Superior streets
Will Fight in High Courts.
If satisfaction is not secured by Mrs
Cummings attorney, the case will be
pushed to the highest courts. AS the
the plaintiff has large interests, the
to be exhaustive.
| nave dIdSCH llOuu IhS
fact that the Lincoln Park board has
sold a portion of the land under dis
! pute.
Chicago police have exercised au
| thority over the tract, and much Of
1t has been fenced in by Captain
Streeter Until now no building of
any kind could be done, because there
was no clear title to any of the land
The county refuses to collect taxes and
| Captain Streeter accepts whatever tax
money is offered to him.
Il have ample resources to carry
the thing to the highest courts" said
| Mrs. Cummings today at the Office of
| her lawyer. 81 realize that shall have
| to fight vast interests, but I am pre-
pared to test the validity of my
ali S20,000,000.
viii Question City's Rights.
IT propose to question the right OF
the city of Chicago to exercise police
jurisdiction over the land. The case
also will determine whether the vari-
GUS noted estates claiming title to
lots have any legal standing"
Mrs. Cummings belongs to one of
the oldest families in the South. She
long has been identified with south
erners and is widely known for her
writings concerning the early COnfed-
eracy and it's leaders. She said she
could afford to lose claim to her prop
erty but that some one must find out
the exact legal standing OF the various
parties interested in the Streeterville