Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-10
WRANGLE OVER S|DEBOARD
GOES TO SUPREME COURT
Litigation Over Old Fall Hill Furni.
ture Decided in Favor of
Mrs. Craig.
BELONGED TO MURRAY TAYLOR
Record Shows Sideboard Has Had
Many Wanderings, Going to Pacific
Coast by Way OF Cape Horn, and
Finally Returning to Fall Hill.


board, which appeared almost without
Value to any other eye than that OF n
connoisscur. divided the members of
an old and prominent Virginia family:
How the antique bit of furniture was
sent journeying around the country at
tho enormous cxpcnsc OF giving it such
trips az shipment from Murray IJin,
~ j.. TO San Francisco By Way Of the
Horn: from san Francisco tc Reno.
New, and from Reno to New York City:
How money expended la.ishly
in making repairs necessary from tiine
TO time to keep the relic Of Colonial
days In Virginia together:
How in passing from the possession
OF one member of the family to an
other the ownership title to The antique
became SO cloudcd that it was finally
necessary TO ask the Supreme Court OF
Appeals Of Virginia TO settle the fam
ily differences prccipitntcd ~ the con-
dieting claims to owncranip:
These are some of the interesting
things disclosed In the record cf nm un-
usual suit decided by the Supreme
Court yesterday in favor of ;hc cxecu-
tor of the cEtate OF the late Captain
MURRAY f. Taylor, OF Fall Ill.," Spot
sylvania County. and against Mrs.
Katherine Taylor Craig, widow OF VIII
liam r. Craig, prominent lawyer OF
Now York and San Francisco.
COURT DECIDES IN
T-Av0n OF mrs. CRAIG
Appeal was denied in the case of Wal
lace Taylor. executor of j. Temple Tay-
Tor VS.. Katherine Taylor Craig, which
came from the Cirruit Court OF Spot
sylvania County, where verdict was
rendered for the plaintiff.
Taylor brought suit against Mrs
Craig 10 recover lot Of furniture, in
Guiding an antique s!dcboard valued
antique had been given TO her by her
uncle, the late J. Temple Taylor, OF
bakersfield, Cal She is daughter OF
the late Captain Murray +. Taylor. Of
Fall Hill," Spotsylvauia After tn.
death OF ]. Temple Taylor his execu-
tor called upon Mrs. Craig TO surreu-
der the s!dcboard which was an heir
loom, and she refused TO part with IT.
Wallace Taylor denied the claim OF
& Mrs. Craig that the priced piece OF
I furniture had been presented - free
[ gift To her. and she was unable To cs-
tablish title TO ownership.
/. MUCH MONEY SPENT
IN SHIPPING OLD RELIC
II was shown ~ the evidence that
many hundreds OF dollars had been
spent by the Taylors In shipping II
from one branch OF the family to an
other ut various times 1t tourneycd
from the ancestral home Of the Tay
lors In Spotsylvan!a County, TO Muir
ray Hiil, y. j.. when Mrs. Craif: was
first married IN 1893 to sir. schultz
There tho Shultzcs received IL and paid
SITS for repairing the damage it sus-
tanned In shipment. Later the antique
was shipped around the Horn. when Mr..
Shultz killed In railroad wreck
10 San Francisco. Cal. Mrs Shultz
put tho antique In Il storage ware
house and kept ii there four years,
paying 1910 storage charges.
In 1905 Mrs. Shul;Z WIS married to
William Il, Craig. a San Francisco law
yer. and the sidchoard was moved 10
their apartments IN Frisco. There ii
remained until the Craigs moved TO
Reno. New. They carried Il with them
and In 1906 they moved Ia New York
When the antique was shipped TO New
York tho CraiEs were distressed a the
discovery that II WAS too large 10 be
gotten through the doors of their
apartment. il was put in storage
again for two years AT $40 4 month.
"TALI. HILL" RETURNED TO
OWNER ny MRS. HEARST
In 1905 Mrs. phoeb" Hcnrst bought
and presented 10 Mrs. Craie's father his
old home. Fall Hn." Spotsylvania
County. just outside OF fredericksburg
Her father requested Mrs Craig 10
let him have the sidchoard az loan
and she shipped II 10 him. II was ut
Fall liiil' when Captain Murray Tay-
Upon the death of Captain Taylor he
devised Fall lIll' 10 his daughter
BESSIE Forbes Robinson. giving his two
other daughters a right To occupy the
home and directed the return u his re-
spcctivc daughters of anything given
by them To him. The appellant claims
that she had loaned this Switchboard to
her father.
The antique remains at Fall H!n."
the executor having won his suit
The Supreme Court granted H.,
ton OF J. Willie Davis for Il writ of
error and supersedcas IN the case OF
the city Of Newport News VS.. j. Willie
Davis, which came up on AN appcal
from the Circuit Court of Newport
News
Davis, who is a paving contractor
entered into Il contract with the city
for the paving of certain streets in
1905. He guaranteed the work for ten
years After the paving was complct-
cd repairs were found necessary. The
], contractor refused TO repair the streets.
contending that the repairs were not
necessitated by any defects in the work
manship or materials he had put into
the job. The city made the repairs at
cost of s2,+oG.l2 AMI sued the con
tractor to recover that amount. The
jury awarded the city $500. Davis APP
pealed alleging erroneous instructions
to the jury.
The court rejected the ,etition in the
case or Madison W.. Conway. Mrs.
Madison. the appellant, brought suit
for malicious prosecution against
Mayor Conway becauae she was ar
rested when boarding house was
raided by the police as disorderly. IN
the lower court the defense demurrcd
to the evidence and the suit was dis
missed. Mrs. Madison alleged that the
police employed n man and woman to
go to the boarding house and register
as married couple. thus supplying
fake evidence upon which to make
the raid.