Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-12-20
Grover W, Harrison, Harvard
Senior Alleges That His
Father Did Not Settle Fairly
with Him for Mothers Estate
COMPLAINT IMPOSING
DOCUMENT IN SIZE
Allegations Of Fraud, Deceit
and Chicanery Made in Ac-
ton Presented to District
Court Yesterday

! OOul COlJl Ndyt
For sheer size. for sensational al
| Legations, FOR complications involved.
land for half a dozen other things, the
suit filed Yesterday by Grover w Har-
rison. former Albuquerque boy and
present senior at Harvard university,
against his father for settlement OF
his mothers estate. Is the most re-
markable ever presented to local
court The action. In effect, asks for
a Judgment of at least 81 900 against
I DR. Harrison The complaint admits
quite frankly that there are very
| likely matters of which the plaintiff
knows nothing which would add to
| the amount. 1t scores DR.. George
| Harrison, the defendant and father
of the plaintiff, in way that would
cause an iceberg TO melt with indie-
nation and tells of so many instances
of alleged fraud chieanery and deceit
that they grow tiresome from sheer
frequency Never has such tale of
supposed unnatural treatment been
| filed in local court as Is told by
this remarka BILE document Thrills are
more frequent than IN the ten-twenty-
thirt' melodrama, The suit is sensa-
tional In every sense of the word.
Young Harrison alleges that by
parental influence and deceit on the
| part OF the defendant. he was induced
| To sign a release deed for his share of
| his mothers estate In Chicago IN
1908. taking as his share a house In
| st, Louis worth at the present time
| $500 ana a couple OF outlawed
notes. Later. he was given $4,000
additional He AYERS that the house
was represented to be worth $4,000.
| he claims that he should have been
settled with on a basis of u vastly diff
ferent and larger sum. He uccuse5
his father of making false reports as
guardian OF himself and with conceal
ing facts which he should have dis
closed alleges that he filed few and
inadequate statements of his transac-
tions as guardian, and took for him
self moneys which should have he-
longcd To the plaintiff MS heir of his
sister and that he finally settled with
the plaintiff on the basis of a state
ment filed With the probate court OF
Bcrnalillo county ten years before the
date OF settlement.
The complaint tells In fun the al
legged story of the boys growing dis
trust and suspicion. tells how that
suspicion was alleged to have been
lulled to rest by the statements OF his
father and by letters which the faith
or got mutual acqunintnnces to write
to him. and by his fathers tears, and
then tells how, quite by accident, no
found that his father had deceived
him and of his efforts TO recover
what he says Is rightfully his.
The complaint Is the bulkiest ever
seen in the local court The actual
complaint. covering twenty-seven
typc- written pages. many of them sim
gle spaced, and the l25 pages of ex-
hibits are filed together. bound like
-. Ia. l..... III lt.s..
Technically. II is an amended com
plant in the suit filed by Grover
Harrison after the 1908 settlement, in
which he finally accepted $4,000 in
fun for his share of his mothers es-
tate.
II begins with a recital that Guad-
alupe Perea ana George w. Harrison
were married in Bernalillo county In
1889. and that there were two chill
drcn born to them. the plaintiff and
his sister Maria who died after sur
NiNing her mother but while still an
infant. 1t alleges that Mrs. Harri-
son died intestntc. possessed of n large
separate estate,
The complaint declares that the
first report filed by Dr. Harrison as
of his wife's estate
showed S47,9SS4i. but that his was
never approved. | alleges the filing
of report as administrator showing
about Si9,5 in his hands, and then
alleges the filing of reports ut vari-
Gus dates. most OF which II alleges
they were untrue. false and contained
improper. at explained and unexplain-
able items. Particulars are given. to
the length of several pages in some
Instances.
The sale of the perea grant Is pick
I'd 10 pieces the plaintiff alleging that
he received but $4,000 as his sole
profit from this sale. whereas tho
srHnt should have brought him about
s33. 600 for his and his sisters shares.
The sale of certain lands belong
ng to the estate without proper leave
lf court IL alleged. as Is the monaco
iouuting Of the defendant for the sum
received for the land. There are
many Ike matters for which the ad-
II is alleged. has rendered
40 accounting.
rom the sale of the Ojo de Espiritu
'ancto. the plaintiff badly charges
he defendant. in so many words.
With pockcting the share of the de-
eascd sister which the plaintiff
laims as his own. Another instance
# alleged irregularity is the sale by
he plaintiff of estate lands to HIM
elf under the guise of the ST. Louis
and and Cattle Company. Ii is al
eyed that the defendant admitted. on
he witness stand. that he owned prac-
ically all the stock OF this concern.
he other directors being merely dunn
MES.
Taking the entire sum claimed by
he plaintiff, as due from those mat
ers of which he has knowledge. set
ing aside what other matters there
nay be. and the complaint intimates
hat there may be others. the plain
iff claims that the accounting which
hould have been made TO him by his
ather totals sl45.51l.2e. This in