The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1912-01-30
CHEATING HUSBAND
OF ACRES, W|Ft'S
IN sUIT OF MRS.
LOTTlE GRANGE. ET Al, YER.
sCs HER HUSBAND. HIS DAUGH.
TER AND SON.IN.LAW

TER AND sON.lN.LAW
Mrs. Lottie Rosecrans Crance. wifi,
OF Alfred E.Crance, and Bessie Rosen.
Grams aud Della Hinman. his daugh.
ters and heirs at law. have entered
suit against Crance. his daughter
Grace Dixon. and her husband, Walter
Dixon, alleging that the Dixons plan.
ned and executed a design TO get ava,
from Crance all his property, so that
his young wife might be cheated from
any share or enjoyment In IT, The
papers were filed today In the ofiice OF
County Clerk Charles II. De Lap by
Attorneys c. II. Watson and Thomas
Drake, representing the plaintiffs.
Mrs. Crance sets out In the COM
plaint that she married Crance Aug
ust ?5. 1909. he being ~ years old
and she 90. there being a ten-months-
old baby boy as the fruit OF the union.
She AYERS that before the marriage
Crance talked TO her OF lands near
Fort klamath that he owned. i'm
provements on Il stock. and his gen.
orally good situation and financial
condition. He talked OF leaving the
care Of the ranch to someone else. so
that they could move to Ashland and
live there. she says. Under these rep
resentations she was induced. she
says. to marry him. believing that he
was reasonably worth $4,000. al
though he was physically feeble and
often mentally incapable. The Dix
ons. she says. by deceit. undue infiu-
once. promise and fraud. induced Mr..
Crance. Just before the marriage, on
August Q, 1911. to deed to Mrs. Dixon
all the Fort klamath $40 acre ranch.
consisting Of Wa OF Eh and So
Of SWk, section 90: Nwk. WIZ. NE
y. Nwk. Nwk swH and M
Swh. section 20, and NEA. SEk,
section 80, township SO s. range 7ls
E. Willamette meridian. The COM
plaint sets forth that an ant believes
Il was the understanding that Crance
on demand was to have the land deed
ed back to him. The Ashland house
and lot also. It Is claimed. was decided
by Crance to the Dixons. the supposI-
ton, she sets forth in the complaint,
being that the Dixons. II the marriage
proved unsatisfactory. did not wish
her to have the property. and after n
separation II could be decided back TO
Crance. She sets forth that Crance
the Fort Klamath ranch,
worth Si6.s00. for 5000. for the
purpose Of buying sheep for Dixon
whose handling he was TO account for
10 Crance. She says the money was
deposited In Crances name In the I
First National bank at Ashland. that
1854 sheep were bought for Dixon,
who sold 1895 Of them and made no
accounting Of the S4.s31.25 proceeds
" the sale. She alleges that he also
got $4,000 from wool. not accounted
'or; that he harvested about $50 tons
II hay. worth ~ per ton. unaccounted
'or; and also agreed to pay 800 a
'ear to GRANGE a. rental for the ranch,
he money being unpaid.
She says the demands OF Crance to
have the property redeedod to him
have been ignored. save for 100 acres
hat was given back to him, and ths
IN December Z. 1911, Attorney Thos. !
Drake made demand for such
Of the remaining acreage, |
which was refused. Mrs. Crance
'laims that as result OF the straits
o which Crance and she have been
educed they have had to mortgage
he 100 acres for money with which
o buy the necessities OF life. and that
hey have lost the home In Ashland.