The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-26
ASK THAT DEED
Be SET ASIDE
Property, Rents and Profits of
Approximately $4,000 Basis
of Suit Filed in Court
BY Mary r, b. Lane, of Cincin
natl, a Former Well Known
st. Marys Lady.

Attorney b. NJ. ClenDening, of Gin
cinnati, and eX- Prosecuting Attorney
II. A. Miller, of this city, as counsel
| for Mary Il. b. Lane, OF Cincinnati, in
dividually, and as administrators Of
the estate of the late Thomas A. Lane,
at one time one of the most prominent
lawyers Of the Queen City bar, filed
suit in the Common Pleas Court here
last Monday against Clinton Lane,
John Miles, Margaret LaeRue ct al,
asking that a deed conveying llg acres
of land in franklin Township, south
of Lake Mercer and some of the most
valuable land in this county, valued at
Sl5, 200, be set aside, and also that de-
fendant, Clinton Lane, be made to ac-
count to the plainti1, as administratriX,
for rents, issues and profits of said land,
amounting to something over $4,000.
The plaintiff states in the petition
that she was married at st. Marys Sept.
25, 1878, to Thomas a. Lane, who died
lntestate near Cincinnati April Il, 1909,
and that on May of the same year
letters of administration on his estate
were issued to her by the Probate Court
of Hamilton County.
Plaintiff further states that forty
acres of the llg' in question were in
herited by Thomas A. Lane upon the
death of his brother, James A. Lane,
in March, 1865, and that he acquired
the remaining 70 acres by deeds of
purchase in April, 1884, during his
married life with plaintiff, the consid-
Grafton thereof being paid in part by
money saved by their joint endeavors,
and in part by transfer of certain real
estate on Barr street, in the city of Gin
cinnati.
Plaintiff alleges that there were no
children of their said marriage, and,
therefore, upon the death of her hus-
band, she became entitled absolutely,
as his only heir at law, to the ~ acres
purchased by them, and to life estate
in the remaining forty acres.
Plaintiff further says that the deed
in question conveying this land from
Thomas A. Lane to Clinton Lane was
made al Hamilton, Ohio, in September,
1895, when the defendant was about 20
years of age, in a diseased condition
mentally and physically, subject to de-
lusions and in no condition to transact
business for himself.
The petition goes on to say that about
this time Thomas A. Lane became
possessed with the desire to leave his
property to representative of his blood;
that he brooded over the fact that he
had no children to inherit his proper
ty, and on this account incurred an
aversion to the plaintiff and her rela-
tives. Finally his habits became those
of hermit and he immured himself
and plaintiff on a little tract of land he
owned in Hamilton County, remote
from neighbor and all facilities. Here
he brooded over the matter and was
finally convinced by Aaron Lane,
relative, that Aaron's son Clinton was
really his (Thomas) own son, and
while under this delusion Aaron Lane
enticed him to Hamilton, where he in
duced him to secretly deed said prop
erty to Clinton Lane, his alleged son.
Plaintiff says that she did not learn
of the execution of this deed until
many months after 1t was made, and
when she demonstrated with her hus-
band for taking the step without her
knowledge, he stated he had become
involved in litigation with the Stand
ard Oil Co., and that, fearing adverse
results, he had, temporarily, put the
title out of his name. Later he stated
that the Standard Oil Company had Sc
cured Judgment against him for $4,000,
and that it would be impossible for
him ever to hold title to the property
again, but that her rights would be
cared for.
Plaintiff states that since her hus-
bands death she has learned that said
company had only judgment against
him for $500. and that his representa-
ton that the property was decided only
tenn mporarily were false and untrue, and
that he had expressed the intent at the
time of making the deed, saying that
he was putting the property out of his
hands in order that neither she (the
plaintitf) nor any of her damned fami-
ly would ever inherit anything he had.