The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-27
SUE FOR $4,000
Carl Meyer Heirs Seek That
Amount From Keith Estate.
They Claim Topeka Physician
FraudulentIy Procured Money.

A claim for $4,000 and sufficient
interest thereon to make a total of
$14. 500 has been filed in probate court
here against the estate of DR.. H. H.
Keith, prominent Topeka physician,
deceased, by Robert Stone, admins
TRAITOR for the estate of Carl Meyer,
thru Hugh Fisher, z. V. Smith and
NJ. o. Locke, as attorneys. The claim
charges that Keith, the same day he
was appointed administrator for the
estate of Meyer. who died in the for
mer's hospital. cashed a $4,000 time
deposit check, certified by Meyer and
a part of his estate, at the Bank of
Topeka; deposited it in the Topeka
State bank in the form of a cashiers
check and then checked it out for his
own use and not for the use of the
Meyer estate. Hearing of the claim is
set for April 10 before Judge Cav.
The story disclosed here by the fill
ing OF the claim is strange one At
torneys for the Meyer estate, in sup
plying details of their charges, have
woven a legal web that is tangled
Meyer Old Soldier.
Carl Meyer was a soldier in the
union army in the Civil war After
the conflict he left his home in IL
hnois and came to Kansas, settling on
a farm near Belleville. In the early
part of 1909 he sold his farm there
and came to Topeka bringing with
him $40, 500 which he obtained for the
land he had accumulated He died
shortly afterwards. Hugh Fisher, one
of the Meyer estate attorneys has in
his possession Bank of Topeka de-
post slip showing a deposit of this
amount which he says was Meyers.
For $780, 600 of his deposit Meyer was
given a per cent time deposit certi-
licate. Fisher also has photogra phi
OF that showing it was certified by
Meyer and then cashed by Keith in
kelth's own name. Another photo
graph in Fishers possession shows a
cashiers check for $4,000 which he
says was received by Keith for the
deposit certificate. Still another photo
graph of the cashiers check will be
used by Fisher in an effort to show
Keith deposited the check in the To-
peka State bank, in the latter's own
name on his own account
Keith did not use the $4,000 in
handling the Meyer estate, attorneys
say, but did use the $500 in the Bank
of Topeka and represented that the
latter comprised the whole of the
estate
Began Fight in New Mexico.
First steps by attorneys to recover
the $4,000 which it is alleged was
WrOnSIuIly, IrauQuIently ana unIaW-
fully" taken by Keith were taken last
summer when a suit was filed in Ros-
well, n. M, against the estate. Keith
owned a large amount of land there
and an attempt was made to get pos
session of 1t to apply on the claim of
the Meyer heirs. After the suit was
filed attorneys learned that the land
owned by Keith was heavily mort
gagged and could not be sold for more
than enough to pay the mortgages
Subsequently the suit was dismissed.
Recently it was found that Keith
before his death had obtained a judg-
ment in the district court fer 5000
against Margaret Finnie. Helen F.
Keith, one of the deceased physicians
heirs appeared, thru attorneys, in the
district court and filed a motion for
the judgment to be revived. The Mey-
er attorneys at once filed a motion
to set aside Helen F. Keith's motion
and asked that the judgment be put
in the name of Douglas Graham, adj
ministrator of the Keith estate. The
claim in probate court was filed in an
effort to obtain this $500 and apply it
on the amount Meyer attorneys claim
Keith appropriated for his own use as
set forth in the probate court petition,