The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-24
CHARGES OF FRAUD
AND CONSPIRACY
E. J. ellis Files Suit Against His
Brother-in-LaW for
$500.
CLAIMS HE WAS FLEECED
COMPLAINANT DECLARES FARM
is NOT WORTH OVER $4,000.

Conspiracy and fraud in the sale Of a
farm of "a acres near Draper are charged
by E. J. ellis in a suit filed in the dis
trict court Yesterday. against his broth
er-in-law, Jonathan Lowell, and Ihomas
Homer, in which he asks $500, and that
the sale be set aside, through which, he
claims. he paid nearly twice the value Oh
the property.
ellis had been foreman on ranch In
Montana, of which his br0ther-n-iaWi
Lowell was superintendent and manager
He says that last May his wife came
to Salt Lake to visit her sister, MFs
Lowell. and he arrived here about mid
night on June 8. He charges that before
he arrived I'm Salt Lake Lowell and Ho-
mer combined and CouSpired' together
to "cheat and defraud him in the sale
of q farm owned by n. =. Coker near
Draper.
It is claimed by the ranchman that
Lowell worked upon Mrs. ellis in regard
to the farm telling her that Mr. Homer
a local real estate man, had snap, and
that he would advise her husband TO BUY
it. Lowell said, so ellis declares IA the
complaint filed by Attorney Aaron Myers,
that the property is is mics from Salt
Lake, instead of 30, and that the property
is barely worth Sl00 an acre.
A Rare Bargain.
ellis charges that on tine day before
he arrived I'm Salt Lake, Lowell and Ito-
mer went to Coker TO dicker on the price
of the farm. Cocker wanted about Sl-l
an acre. Then when ellis came TO town
Lowell was at the train with his AUTO
mobile to meet him. They went to
LOvelrs home and arranged 10 meet 1o-
mer the next day, Lowell all the time
telling him what snap the farm was
as a real estate bargain.
They three-Cills. Lowell and Homer
went to the farm in an automobile Ihey
looked over the property for twenty min
Utes and then returned to salt Lake. Ho-
mer said he had an offer from another
party for $1,000 down and five other pay
ments of $1,000. OF for $500 cash LoVel
jumped in, ellis says, and insisted with
Homer that ne had first spoken for the
farm for his brOther-in-laW, and Homer
finally agreed TO hold off the other deal
to let ellis make up his mind, which mad
to be done by clock the next DAY
1t was claimed by Homer and Lowell
ellis says, that there were five acres in
orchard in the 34l2 acres OF ldnut Ilal
there was ample water to he transferred
and that the land was ideal. ellis now
saws that there is less than two acres
i'm orchard; that only 60 shares of Dry
Creek Reservoir * Irrigation company
were given with the farm ana
that since then he has been forced 10
buy 90 more shares, for $500, and ST
there is not sufficient water on the farm
He says the land is worth not more than
In was also claimed by Homer and
owned by man named o. o. Reed, O
Philadelphia and that Coker was merely
the tenant.
Paid $500 for Farm.
The day after he was whirled out to
the farm in the automobile of Lowell.
Gils was induced to buy the farm for
$500 He paid S1,e00 in cash TO bind
the deal, and then mortgaged his farm
i'm Missouri for S3000 to Lowell. Loyell
gave his personal note to Homer for the
amount ellis also took up q mortgage
on the place TO complete the $500.
ellis says he did not learn until later
that he had been feeced by his own
brother-in-law. He says Homer acted. as
attorney for the person Reed of Phlla-
delphia Coker. janitor i'm the Deseret
News building, is brought into the case
innocently. it is said. Tt is claimed CokeT
listed the property with Homer and
signed an agreement to sell it to Reed
six DAYS before il went TO ellis. The
/ Montana raucher says he tried to get his
money back, but failed, and has now now
started d fight in the court for S2,7W
! which he CLAIMS is the amount above
what the farm is really worth