Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1908 — MONNETT CASE IS COMPROMISED [ARTICLE]

MONNETT CASE IS COMPROMISED

Suit to Set Aside Transfer to Chicago Training School Has Been Withdrawn. The suit instituted by Fletcher Monnett to have the deed of his sister, Miss Cordelia Monnett, to the Chicago Training School for City, Home and Foreign Missions, set aside, has now been amicably settled by com promise, the conditions of which are as follows: The suit of Mr. Monnett against the training school was dismissed on motion of the plaintiff’s attorneys after a petition had been filed by the defendant’s attorneys asking that as the parties to the action resided in different states, it be transferred to the federal court. This will have the effect of leaving the training school in undisputed possession of all the property originally transferred to them by Miss Monnett, and which included her residence property and ten acres of land across the river, and 1,001 acres of land in Newton township, real estate with an estimated value of SIOO,OOO. In consideration of withdrawing the suit Miss * Monnett defeds to her brother Fletcher her Interest in the estate of her sister Almira, which was the undivided half of 240 acres of land in Newton township and the undivided half of 10 acres adjoining the Monnett home on College road and the undivided half of 30 feet on Washington stret, occupied by lease to F. W. Bedford, by the building adjoining the Nowels Hotel. The property included in this transfer is valued at SIO,OOO.

The deeds concluding the settlement have been made and are already on file at the court house. The training school will deed to the trustees of the Mopnett Childrens’ Home the " residence "property and the ten acres adjoining it, and the home will be made a permanent institution, but the ladies in charge of it will have to provide for its maintenance, being given only such support as the Chicago Training School can give in the way of advice and by providing for donations thru the Influence of a widely circulated paper it publishes. I Something of the plan and the present conditions of this school will be published in a later Issue.