Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-13
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case in which the HiaJoTie! Oh the res
,asrts az Winter street hill have taken
-, interest and which has been the
"s,.s tonic of conversation in that sec
~, %, come time was settled, Temporal
,nv a, least. wednesday morning, when
a hearing was held before Recorder At
bins IN the action to recover the rent of
,he building at IS Winter street occupied
un,i, his death by Frank T.. Buker and
since then by his widow, Mrs. Ellen Blu
,sr The plaintiff in the case was Mrs.
Mary A. Buker. mother of Frank f. Blu
NOR The action was to recover SIG, the
Won't Of the building for eight months.
Nm. c. A. Knight appeared for Mrs.
Euarv A. Buker, and Hon. George w.
|Hsselton for Mrs. Ellen Buker. the de-
|indant.
While the action was to recover the
rent, the title to the building was the
,rincipal issue involved. Mrs. Ellen Blu
| ser claimed that the property went tn
| her upon her husbands death. while her
mother-in-law claimed that she paid for
The building and for the moving of it TO
M present location and that it was her
Broperty Several witnesses testified on
both sides and some of the testimony
vas distinctly at variance.
| Mrs. Mary A. Buker told how her son
heard of the chance to buy the old Max
~ Office from the Oakland Mfg. Co for
4 and that she not only gave him the
money to buy it hut also furnished the
noney to pay for moving it. She con-
;dsrpd it his store as long as he was
alive and ii was always spoken of in
that way. After her son died Mrs. Mary
Buker continued to allow his widow to
hun the store and charged but nominal
1rice for the rent. Later she reduced
The amount of the rent for the house and
FMen Buker found that part of the rent
money she had been paying was for rent
II the store she refused to pay, claiming
that she owned the building. Mrs. Bukel
related several conversations she had
with Mrs. Ellen Ruker and told of pay.
ing the money for the building to hei
son
At this point Attorney Knight called
upon A. W. McCausland of the Oakland
Afg Co. to testify. A receipt was shown
the witness and he at once identified II
Is one he had made out. although, he
said, he had forgotten that he had siver
ay such receipt and apologiZed to al
hose whom he had told he had give'
| 10 receipt He recognized the writing as
bis and also the date. The receipt was
made out in favor of Mrs. Mary A. Blu
[ker and was for s. received for the Max
Icy office building.
This practically settled the question
|hut several witnesses were called to SUB
|aantiate the testimony of the plaintiH
Captain Z. A. Carleton testified to see
ling Mrs Buker give her son IS with
(which To purchase the building in his
|dwn house, where Mrs. Ruker was living
Mrs Sarah +. Johnson related CONVEX
|sation between her husband and Franz
|Bnker in which the latter told her nus
hand some time before his death that ne
She also told of being with her mother
when she asked Mrs. Ellen Buker for the
bent and also offered to sell her the build
|ing. Mrs. Ellen Buker, replying to the
|latter. said that she did not have the
money. Henry Johnson. husband of Mrs
johnson. testified in part to the same
|talk with Frank Buker as did his wife.
For the defendant. RI. w. Scott o.
(Plttston. carpenter. testified that Frank
/ Buker paid him the money for carpen
Fer work done and told him that his wife
Furnished the money. John II. Bennett
IA painter, nlso testified that Frank Blu
ker paid him the money for the work HI
| did and told him that his wife furnished
the money. c. r.. York, another painter
and neighbor of Frank Buker, relatef
Several conversations he had with Bukel
both before and after he purchased thu
mllding., Buker told him, the witnes:
related. that his mother gave him thu
money to pay for the moving and tina
MS wife gave him the money to pay fo
the building.
Mrs Ellen Ruker, the defendant. tolt
now she gave her husband S. with which
10 pay for the building. She admitte,
mat he told her that his mother woult
pay for the moving. Afterward. the wit
"ess testified, Mrs. Mary .,Buker refused
20 take back the money paid out for TIN
moving Of the building Mrs. Buker ties
,"eo mat she paid the bills for the worl
noue on the place. She always consid
,''u II her husbands store and gave hin
"e' weeks wages. she was working In tn
house.
Ne'order Atkins said that the receip
~ convincing proof to whom the tit!
ue building belonged and said tina
ae manner in which it was made on
o"ea mat 1t was suggested by Fran
'ahef and that he should therefore fin
.1as''eht for the plaintiff. An appea
w.. entered and bonds, to insure tn
"s's We're placed at $50.
Nah1 or