Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-22
HER DOVER IS IMPERILED
Says Chanler Hasn't Enough Left to
Pay $4,000 a Year.
THINKS HE WAS INFLUENCED
Declares in Bill She Il Informed
That Chanler Was in q "SuR-
gestible' Mental State.

NEW 1ORh, september --.-MTS
Julia Chamberlain Chanler. the frs
wife of Robert Winthrop CHAMBER, who
divorced him in Paris in August. 1907
took the first legal steps yesterday te
overthrow Nine. Cavalieri's claims .tC
Chambers estate. The fight to recover
for him his property, decided away In
the now famous antenuptial agree
ment between him and Nine. Cavalieri
will be made through his first wife's
suit The first Mrs. Chanler cabled he1
permission for the bringing OF the
suit on Tuesday.
The first Mrs. Chambers complaint is
verified by Fred N. Watriss OF Alex
ander, Watriss & Polk. who says that
he takes this action because Mrs
Chanler is out of the state. The COM
plant outlines the main line of attack
which Nine. Cavalieri must meet II she
is to preserve the hold she got on
CHAMBERS property by filing the ante
nuptial transfer with Register Grffen-
hagen few days ago. A lis pendens
filed yesterday in connection with the
suit will prevent Nine. Cavalier from
disposing Of the real estate until the
litigation brought by the first Mrs.
Chanler is decided.
Claims Right of Dover.
The inchoate right Of dover which
the first Mrs. Chan1er contends that
she still has in the estate of her d.
vorced husband is urged as one OF the
reasons why he could make no such
transfer to Nine. Cavalieri as he at
tempts to do in the antenuptial agree
ment. The first Mrs. Chanler also
charges that the transaction, so TAR as
it is effective, is fraud on her and her
children because it takes out OF Chan
ler's power the means to pay her an
income of $4,000 a year and her two
daughters by Chanler $4,000 year
each, as he agreed to do before she OBJ
tanned judgment for divorce against
him.
The first Mrs Chanler also alleges that
she is informed and believes that the
defendant. Robert w. Chanler. at the
time of the execution of said indentufe
WAS in a suggestible mental state: that
he was susceptible or liable to be easily
Influenced and deceived. and that the said
defendant, Natalina Cavalier Chanler,
knowing of his condition and taking ad-
sentation, specious inducements and UNI
due influence to persuade him to execute
the said indenture.'
Defendants to the Suit.
The action is directed not only against
Chanler and Mime. Cavalieri, but against
the trustees of the different properties
in which Chanler had an interest. These
trustees are his brothers. Lewis Stuy-
vesant Chanler and Winthrop Chanler,
the Union Trust Company and the New
York Life Insurance and Trust Com
pany.
In her complaint Mrs. Julia Chamber
lain Chanler asserts that she was married
to Chanler April Il, 1893, in London, and
November "a, 1893. bore him daughter,
Julia and March -. 1905, bore him an
other daughter, Dorothy, both of whom
are still alive. She got divorce in the
court of first instance, department OF the
Seine, France. August .. 1907.
April IL, 1907, prior to this divorce,
Mrs Chanler asserts, she and her hus-
band entered into a written agreement
for the future support of herself and her
daughters. This agreement provided that
he should pay her $4,000 year and
give s., 600 each for the support OF their
children. The agreement contained the
specification that it should be made a
part of any judgment of divorce and
should be in place of any allowance by
the court. 1t was made part OF the
judgment in accordance with this pro-
vision, Mrs. Chanler asserts.
At that time she says on information
and belief and up to September 10. 1910.
when Nine. Cavalieri through her law
yers filed the antenuptial agreement,
Chanler was possessed of an undivided
one-eighth interest in the following New
York city real estate: 1913 to 797 18th
avenue, $50 to $40 9th avenue, $50 to 372
and various unnumbered vacant lots in
West 55th street. s31 to 500 10th avenue,
sos to oil West 18th street.
Agreement With Cavalieri.
Mrs Chanler complains that May 81,
1910. Chanler executed and delivered to
Natalina Cavalieri Chanler, then Nata-
lima Cavalieri, an indenture in considera-
ton of an intended marriage and 81 by
which he conveyed this same property
and all his other realty, forming a part
of his share in the estate of the late Mrs.
Laura Delano, i'm which she. the first
Mrs. Chanler, still possesses an inchoate
right of dover, to Natalina Cavalieri.
Mrs. Chanler also complains Of that part
OF the antenuptial agreement which she
says assumes to appoint Nine. Cava-
lieri her former husbands attorney in
fact to collect rents and incomes from
which she is to take and keep $4,000 a
year.
BY reason of this agreement, Mrs.
Chambers complaint says, although she
does not know the amount of her former
husbands income, she is advised and be-
has put Ii out of his power to carry out
tho agreement made before his divorce
and that, therefore, she and her children
may be deprived Of the means OF livli-
hood and the moneys necessary for their
support
Demands of First Wife.
The equitable relief demanded by the
first Mrs. Chanler is:
That ii he adjudged that the execution
Of the said indenture was obtained bv the
defendant Natalina Cavalieri Chanler. BY
fraud and. undue influence and that the
execution of the same was not the free
act and deed OF the said Robert w
Chanler. and that it was and is void
That the said purported conveyance or
antenuptial agreement be adjudged to be
in fraud of the rights of the plaintiff and
the children of the said Robert w. Chan
Ter. and therefore void, and that 1t be
brought into court and delivered up to he
conceded. and that the record thereof in
the office of the register Of the county OF
New York be Cancelled
That the defendants. the Union Trust
Company, Lewis StGyvesant Chanier
Winthrop Chanler and the New York Life
Insurance and Trust Company paw "a
the plaintiff the sums prescribed i'm the
agreement OF April. 1907. and the s,,bse-
quent judgment of divorce before makinr
any other disposition of the income of The
estate Of Robert w. Chanler:
That the said defendant. Natalina Caya.
l!eri Chanler. be enjoined and forbidden
from disposing of the said real propert,
pcnding the settlement Of this action anr
that receiver be appointed to take hole
OF and preserve the said real propert,
and to receive the income to which thu
defendant Rob ". Chanler, is entitled
eIiiring the pf> &c OF the action ant