Denver Post
Denver, CO
Tuesday January 25, 1898, page 3
SHE ALLEGES FRAUD
Mary S. Wilson Says Her Brothers Swindled Her Out of Valuable Property
Mrs. Mary S. Wilson says that while she was sick her own brother, Peter J. Ganz, and her half-brother, Charles Ockers, cheated her, defrauding her out of her patrimony. This was her contention in the district court, where she filed suit against them. She complains that she was one of three heirs to their mother's estate, Mrs. Theresa Ganz, who died in 1872, leaving lot 1 in block 33, West Denver, and two ranches of 160 acres and 80 acres in Weld County.
A partition was not had until 1896, when her brother, Peter Ganz, went to her, she avers, suggesting the idea. Trusting him in every respect she believed him when he said, as she alleges, that the lot was worth $8,000 and that the ranches was were worth in value the same. She contented to take the lot and that Ganz take the 8-acre ranch and Ockers the 160-acre ranch, quit claims being exchanged. He had also represented to her that the Denver lot was free from encumbrances of any kind, she alleges, but when she came to investigate that at best it was worth only $500, that it was encumbered and that the taxes had not been paid on it for several years.
Further investigation disclosed, she avers, that the 160 acre ranch was worth at least $3,500 and the 80-acre patch $3,400.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Denver, CO
Tuesday January 25, 1898, page 6
ALLEGES AN UNFAIR DECISION
Mary S. Wilson Says She Was Duped in a Real State Deal.
Mary S. Wilson entered suit in the district court yesterday against Peter J. Ganz and Charles Ockers her whole and half brothers respectively. She claims that advantages was taken of her illness by her brothers, who induced her to quit claim a piece of farming land for a comparatively worthless lot in West Denver. She claims the divison was unfair and seeks for a cancellation of the quit claim deed and an accounting.
Denver Post
Denver Co
Wednesday February 15, 1899, page 6
RELATIVES CHARGED WITH CRUELTY AND DISHONESTY
A sister Accuses Her Two Brothers of Cheating Her
WELD COUNTY ESTATE DIVISION
The Ganz Acres Count Not Remain Divided as the Heirs Originally Decided Because Mrs. Mary Wilson Though She Had Been Buncoed by Peter Ganz and Charles Ockers.
Mrs. Mary S. Wilson accuses her brother Peter J. Ganz and her half brother, Charles Ockers, both Weld county farmers of having inveigled her out of most of her share of her father's and mother's estate by false representation and the charges as made are being sifted in Judge Le Fevre's division of the district court. The brothers say they didn't and the trial is hotly contested.
Mrs. Wilson declares that in 1872 Theresa Ganz, her mother, died intestate, leaving as heirs their father, Jacob Ganz, Charles Ockers, William Ockers, Peter J. Ganz and herself. The property consisted of a lot in Denver and two farms in Weld County, one eighty acres and the other 160 acres in extent. William Ockers died intestate in 1884 and Jacob Ganz, the father died in 1896, likewise intestate. Up to the time of the father's death Charles Ocker's share amounted to three-sixteenths of the estate, Peter J. Ganz's five-thirty seconds and the plaintiff's five-thirty seconds, the father having a one-half interest.
On the 4th of April 1896, a partition of the estate was had among the heirs, each accepting mutual quit claim deeds.
For some time prior to this time, Mrs. Wilson alleges in the pleadings, she was absent from her father's home in Weld County and so was ignorant of the value of the property there when the partition was broached. She charges that the brothers, through her senior by several years, who had lived there and cultivated the lands, came to her at a time when she was recovering from a sickness that had lasted four months and when she was in urgent need of money with which to pay her medical expenses, a fact they knew, she says, and urged a partition, which finally resulted in quit claim deeds being exchanged, very readily on her part since she believed the representations of her brothers, She alleges them to have been false and fraudulently so.
They told her, Mrs. Wilson complains, that they, the brothers, had been offered $8,000 for the Denver lot, that it was equal in value to the eighty-acre tract which Peter Ganz wanted, and equal in value to the 160 acre tract which Charles Ockers wanted; they had said moreover that they had kept the taxes on the Denver lot paid and that it was entirely free from encumbrances and leins. Having faith in their representation she accepted, the Denver lot, Mrs. Wilson says, but charging that at the time they knew their representation to be false.
Mrs. Wilson asserts that she had not found the lot she got as her share in the estate at all equal in value to the eighty acre tract, or the 160 acre tract. That on the contrary she has found that free from all encumbrances it is not worth more than $500, whilst the eight acre tract she has ascertained is valued at $2,499 and the 160 acre tract at $3,500. Mrs. Wilson avers furthermore that even on her petty $500 lot the taxes had not been paid as had been state to her.
In 1873 two tax deeds had been permitted to be issued on unpaid taxes of 1857 and 1868, which are still a cloud over the title and that the taxes for 1892, 1893, 1894 had not been paid and tax deed sales were standing out against them; that even the taxes for 1895 had not been paid and she did not discover all these leins until 1896 when, in order to cancel them all and redeem the property, she had to borrow $340 at heavy interest.
Mrs. Wilson also alleges that Peter Ganz controlled the eighty acre tract for ten years prior to the partition, in which time he paid her only $125, using the crops and other profits of the land for himself, the tract easily worth $200 per year from the Denver lot, but did not share it with her, runs the charge.
She thinks she is entitled to $500 as her portion of the rent from the eight acre tract and the Denver lot.
Ockers, she says, had control of the 160 acre tract for twelve years, the rental being worth at least $250 a year, but he has given her nothing, it is charges. Claim is made that $600 should be paid to the sister.
Mrs. Wilson sues that this quit-claim deed be set aside for an accounting and for a repatriation.
The brothers are answering in court by saying that while it may be true that the Denver lot is now worth only $500, at the time of the sale, however, it was valued and worth $8,000. They say they did not know that the taxes had not been paid. All the other charges are denied.
Denver, CO
Tuesday January 25, 1898, page 3
SHE ALLEGES FRAUD
Mary S. Wilson Says Her Brothers Swindled Her Out of Valuable Property
Mrs. Mary S. Wilson says that while she was sick her own brother, Peter J. Ganz, and her half-brother, Charles Ockers, cheated her, defrauding her out of her patrimony. This was her contention in the district court, where she filed suit against them. She complains that she was one of three heirs to their mother's estate, Mrs. Theresa Ganz, who died in 1872, leaving lot 1 in block 33, West Denver, and two ranches of 160 acres and 80 acres in Weld County.
A partition was not had until 1896, when her brother, Peter Ganz, went to her, she avers, suggesting the idea. Trusting him in every respect she believed him when he said, as she alleges, that the lot was worth $8,000 and that the ranches was were worth in value the same. She contented to take the lot and that Ganz take the 8-acre ranch and Ockers the 160-acre ranch, quit claims being exchanged. He had also represented to her that the Denver lot was free from encumbrances of any kind, she alleges, but when she came to investigate that at best it was worth only $500, that it was encumbered and that the taxes had not been paid on it for several years.
Further investigation disclosed, she avers, that the 160 acre ranch was worth at least $3,500 and the 80-acre patch $3,400.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Denver, CO
Tuesday January 25, 1898, page 6
ALLEGES AN UNFAIR DECISION
Mary S. Wilson Says She Was Duped in a Real State Deal.
Mary S. Wilson entered suit in the district court yesterday against Peter J. Ganz and Charles Ockers her whole and half brothers respectively. She claims that advantages was taken of her illness by her brothers, who induced her to quit claim a piece of farming land for a comparatively worthless lot in West Denver. She claims the divison was unfair and seeks for a cancellation of the quit claim deed and an accounting.
Denver Post
Denver Co
Wednesday February 15, 1899, page 6
RELATIVES CHARGED WITH CRUELTY AND DISHONESTY
A sister Accuses Her Two Brothers of Cheating Her
WELD COUNTY ESTATE DIVISION
The Ganz Acres Count Not Remain Divided as the Heirs Originally Decided Because Mrs. Mary Wilson Though She Had Been Buncoed by Peter Ganz and Charles Ockers.
Mrs. Mary S. Wilson accuses her brother Peter J. Ganz and her half brother, Charles Ockers, both Weld county farmers of having inveigled her out of most of her share of her father's and mother's estate by false representation and the charges as made are being sifted in Judge Le Fevre's division of the district court. The brothers say they didn't and the trial is hotly contested.
Mrs. Wilson declares that in 1872 Theresa Ganz, her mother, died intestate, leaving as heirs their father, Jacob Ganz, Charles Ockers, William Ockers, Peter J. Ganz and herself. The property consisted of a lot in Denver and two farms in Weld County, one eighty acres and the other 160 acres in extent. William Ockers died intestate in 1884 and Jacob Ganz, the father died in 1896, likewise intestate. Up to the time of the father's death Charles Ocker's share amounted to three-sixteenths of the estate, Peter J. Ganz's five-thirty seconds and the plaintiff's five-thirty seconds, the father having a one-half interest.
On the 4th of April 1896, a partition of the estate was had among the heirs, each accepting mutual quit claim deeds.
For some time prior to this time, Mrs. Wilson alleges in the pleadings, she was absent from her father's home in Weld County and so was ignorant of the value of the property there when the partition was broached. She charges that the brothers, through her senior by several years, who had lived there and cultivated the lands, came to her at a time when she was recovering from a sickness that had lasted four months and when she was in urgent need of money with which to pay her medical expenses, a fact they knew, she says, and urged a partition, which finally resulted in quit claim deeds being exchanged, very readily on her part since she believed the representations of her brothers, She alleges them to have been false and fraudulently so.
They told her, Mrs. Wilson complains, that they, the brothers, had been offered $8,000 for the Denver lot, that it was equal in value to the eighty-acre tract which Peter Ganz wanted, and equal in value to the 160 acre tract which Charles Ockers wanted; they had said moreover that they had kept the taxes on the Denver lot paid and that it was entirely free from encumbrances and leins. Having faith in their representation she accepted, the Denver lot, Mrs. Wilson says, but charging that at the time they knew their representation to be false.
Mrs. Wilson asserts that she had not found the lot she got as her share in the estate at all equal in value to the eighty acre tract, or the 160 acre tract. That on the contrary she has found that free from all encumbrances it is not worth more than $500, whilst the eight acre tract she has ascertained is valued at $2,499 and the 160 acre tract at $3,500. Mrs. Wilson avers furthermore that even on her petty $500 lot the taxes had not been paid as had been state to her.
In 1873 two tax deeds had been permitted to be issued on unpaid taxes of 1857 and 1868, which are still a cloud over the title and that the taxes for 1892, 1893, 1894 had not been paid and tax deed sales were standing out against them; that even the taxes for 1895 had not been paid and she did not discover all these leins until 1896 when, in order to cancel them all and redeem the property, she had to borrow $340 at heavy interest.
Mrs. Wilson also alleges that Peter Ganz controlled the eighty acre tract for ten years prior to the partition, in which time he paid her only $125, using the crops and other profits of the land for himself, the tract easily worth $200 per year from the Denver lot, but did not share it with her, runs the charge.
She thinks she is entitled to $500 as her portion of the rent from the eight acre tract and the Denver lot.
Ockers, she says, had control of the 160 acre tract for twelve years, the rental being worth at least $250 a year, but he has given her nothing, it is charges. Claim is made that $600 should be paid to the sister.
Mrs. Wilson sues that this quit-claim deed be set aside for an accounting and for a repatriation.
The brothers are answering in court by saying that while it may be true that the Denver lot is now worth only $500, at the time of the sale, however, it was valued and worth $8,000. They say they did not know that the taxes had not been paid. All the other charges are denied.
Denver Post
Denver, CO
Tuesday January 25, 1898, page 3
SHE ALLEGES FRAUD
Mary S. Wilson Says Her Brothers Swindled Her Out of Valuable Property
Mrs. Mary S. Wilson says that while she was sick her own brother, Peter J. Ganz, and her half-brother, Charles Ockers, cheated her, defrauding her out of her patrimony. This was her contention in the district court, where she filed suit against them. She complains that she was one of three heirs to their mother's estate, Mrs. Theresa Ganz, who died in 1872, leaving lot 1 in block 33, West Denver, and two ranches of 160 acres and 80 acres in Weld County.
A partition was not had until 1896, when her brother, Peter Ganz, went to her, she avers, suggesting the idea. Trusting him in every respect she believed him when he said, as she alleges, that the lot was worth $8,000 and that the ranches was were worth in value the same. She contented to take the lot and that Ganz take the 8-acre ranch and Ockers the 160-acre ranch, quit claims being exchanged. He had also represented to her that the Denver lot was free from encumbrances of any kind, she alleges, but when she came to investigate that at best it was worth only $500, that it was encumbered and that the taxes had not been paid on it for several years.
Further investigation disclosed, she avers, that the 160 acre ranch was worth at least $3,500 and the 80-acre patch $3,400.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Denver, CO
Tuesday January 25, 1898, page 6
ALLEGES AN UNFAIR DECISION
Mary S. Wilson Says She Was Duped in a Real State Deal.
Mary S. Wilson entered suit in the district court yesterday against Peter J. Ganz and Charles Ockers her whole and half brothers respectively. She claims that advantages was taken of her illness by her brothers, who induced her to quit claim a piece of farming land for a comparatively worthless lot in West Denver. She claims the divison was unfair and seeks for a cancellation of the quit claim deed and an accounting.
Denver Post
Denver Co
Wednesday February 15, 1899, page 6
RELATIVES CHARGED WITH CRUELTY AND DISHONESTY
A sister Accuses Her Two Brothers of Cheating Her
WELD COUNTY ESTATE DIVISION
The Ganz Acres Count Not Remain Divided as the Heirs Originally Decided Because Mrs. Mary Wilson Though She Had Been Buncoed by Peter Ganz and Charles Ockers.
Mrs. Mary S. Wilson accuses her brother Peter J. Ganz and her half brother, Charles Ockers, both Weld county farmers of having inveigled her out of most of her share of her father's and mother's estate by false representation and the charges as made are being sifted in Judge Le Fevre's division of the district court. The brothers say they didn't and the trial is hotly contested.
Mrs. Wilson declares that in 1872 Theresa Ganz, her mother, died intestate, leaving as heirs their father, Jacob Ganz, Charles Ockers, William Ockers, Peter J. Ganz and herself. The property consisted of a lot in Denver and two farms in Weld County, one eighty acres and the other 160 acres in extent. William Ockers died intestate in 1884 and Jacob Ganz, the father died in 1896, likewise intestate. Up to the time of the father's death Charles Ocker's share amounted to three-sixteenths of the estate, Peter J. Ganz's five-thirty seconds and the plaintiff's five-thirty seconds, the father having a one-half interest.
On the 4th of April 1896, a partition of the estate was had among the heirs, each accepting mutual quit claim deeds.
For some time prior to this time, Mrs. Wilson alleges in the pleadings, she was absent from her father's home in Weld County and so was ignorant of the value of the property there when the partition was broached. She charges that the brothers, through her senior by several years, who had lived there and cultivated the lands, came to her at a time when she was recovering from a sickness that had lasted four months and when she was in urgent need of money with which to pay her medical expenses, a fact they knew, she says, and urged a partition, which finally resulted in quit claim deeds being exchanged, very readily on her part since she believed the representations of her brothers, She alleges them to have been false and fraudulently so.
They told her, Mrs. Wilson complains, that they, the brothers, had been offered $8,000 for the Denver lot, that it was equal in value to the eighty-acre tract which Peter Ganz wanted, and equal in value to the 160 acre tract which Charles Ockers wanted; they had said moreover that they had kept the taxes on the Denver lot paid and that it was entirely free from encumbrances and leins. Having faith in their representation she accepted, the Denver lot, Mrs. Wilson says, but charging that at the time they knew their representation to be false.
Mrs. Wilson asserts that she had not found the lot she got as her share in the estate at all equal in value to the eighty acre tract, or the 160 acre tract. That on the contrary she has found that free from all encumbrances it is not worth more than $500, whilst the eight acre tract she has ascertained is valued at $2,499 and the 160 acre tract at $3,500. Mrs. Wilson avers furthermore that even on her petty $500 lot the taxes had not been paid as had been state to her.
In 1873 two tax deeds had been permitted to be issued on unpaid taxes of 1857 and 1868, which are still a cloud over the title and that the taxes for 1892, 1893, 1894 had not been paid and tax deed sales were standing out against them; that even the taxes for 1895 had not been paid and she did not discover all these leins until 1896 when, in order to cancel them all and redeem the property, she had to borrow $340 at heavy interest.
Mrs. Wilson also alleges that Peter Ganz controlled the eighty acre tract for ten years prior to the partition, in which time he paid her only $125, using the crops and other profits of the land for himself, the tract easily worth $200 per year from the Denver lot, but did not share it with her, runs the charge.
She thinks she is entitled to $500 as her portion of the rent from the eight acre tract and the Denver lot.
Ockers, she says, had control of the 160 acre tract for twelve years, the rental being worth at least $250 a year, but he has given her nothing, it is charges. Claim is made that $600 should be paid to the sister.
Mrs. Wilson sues that this quit-claim deed be set aside for an accounting and for a repatriation.
The brothers are answering in court by saying that while it may be true that the Denver lot is now worth only $500, at the time of the sale, however, it was valued and worth $8,000. They say they did not know that the taxes had not been paid. All the other charges are denied.
Denver, CO
Tuesday January 25, 1898, page 3
SHE ALLEGES FRAUD
Mary S. Wilson Says Her Brothers Swindled Her Out of Valuable Property
Mrs. Mary S. Wilson says that while she was sick her own brother, Peter J. Ganz, and her half-brother, Charles Ockers, cheated her, defrauding her out of her patrimony. This was her contention in the district court, where she filed suit against them. She complains that she was one of three heirs to their mother's estate, Mrs. Theresa Ganz, who died in 1872, leaving lot 1 in block 33, West Denver, and two ranches of 160 acres and 80 acres in Weld County.
A partition was not had until 1896, when her brother, Peter Ganz, went to her, she avers, suggesting the idea. Trusting him in every respect she believed him when he said, as she alleges, that the lot was worth $8,000 and that the ranches was were worth in value the same. She contented to take the lot and that Ganz take the 8-acre ranch and Ockers the 160-acre ranch, quit claims being exchanged. He had also represented to her that the Denver lot was free from encumbrances of any kind, she alleges, but when she came to investigate that at best it was worth only $500, that it was encumbered and that the taxes had not been paid on it for several years.
Further investigation disclosed, she avers, that the 160 acre ranch was worth at least $3,500 and the 80-acre patch $3,400.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Denver, CO
Tuesday January 25, 1898, page 6
ALLEGES AN UNFAIR DECISION
Mary S. Wilson Says She Was Duped in a Real State Deal.
Mary S. Wilson entered suit in the district court yesterday against Peter J. Ganz and Charles Ockers her whole and half brothers respectively. She claims that advantages was taken of her illness by her brothers, who induced her to quit claim a piece of farming land for a comparatively worthless lot in West Denver. She claims the divison was unfair and seeks for a cancellation of the quit claim deed and an accounting.
Denver Post
Denver Co
Wednesday February 15, 1899, page 6
RELATIVES CHARGED WITH CRUELTY AND DISHONESTY
A sister Accuses Her Two Brothers of Cheating Her
WELD COUNTY ESTATE DIVISION
The Ganz Acres Count Not Remain Divided as the Heirs Originally Decided Because Mrs. Mary Wilson Though She Had Been Buncoed by Peter Ganz and Charles Ockers.
Mrs. Mary S. Wilson accuses her brother Peter J. Ganz and her half brother, Charles Ockers, both Weld county farmers of having inveigled her out of most of her share of her father's and mother's estate by false representation and the charges as made are being sifted in Judge Le Fevre's division of the district court. The brothers say they didn't and the trial is hotly contested.
Mrs. Wilson declares that in 1872 Theresa Ganz, her mother, died intestate, leaving as heirs their father, Jacob Ganz, Charles Ockers, William Ockers, Peter J. Ganz and herself. The property consisted of a lot in Denver and two farms in Weld County, one eighty acres and the other 160 acres in extent. William Ockers died intestate in 1884 and Jacob Ganz, the father died in 1896, likewise intestate. Up to the time of the father's death Charles Ocker's share amounted to three-sixteenths of the estate, Peter J. Ganz's five-thirty seconds and the plaintiff's five-thirty seconds, the father having a one-half interest.
On the 4th of April 1896, a partition of the estate was had among the heirs, each accepting mutual quit claim deeds.
For some time prior to this time, Mrs. Wilson alleges in the pleadings, she was absent from her father's home in Weld County and so was ignorant of the value of the property there when the partition was broached. She charges that the brothers, through her senior by several years, who had lived there and cultivated the lands, came to her at a time when she was recovering from a sickness that had lasted four months and when she was in urgent need of money with which to pay her medical expenses, a fact they knew, she says, and urged a partition, which finally resulted in quit claim deeds being exchanged, very readily on her part since she believed the representations of her brothers, She alleges them to have been false and fraudulently so.
They told her, Mrs. Wilson complains, that they, the brothers, had been offered $8,000 for the Denver lot, that it was equal in value to the eighty-acre tract which Peter Ganz wanted, and equal in value to the 160 acre tract which Charles Ockers wanted; they had said moreover that they had kept the taxes on the Denver lot paid and that it was entirely free from encumbrances and leins. Having faith in their representation she accepted, the Denver lot, Mrs. Wilson says, but charging that at the time they knew their representation to be false.
Mrs. Wilson asserts that she had not found the lot she got as her share in the estate at all equal in value to the eighty acre tract, or the 160 acre tract. That on the contrary she has found that free from all encumbrances it is not worth more than $500, whilst the eight acre tract she has ascertained is valued at $2,499 and the 160 acre tract at $3,500. Mrs. Wilson avers furthermore that even on her petty $500 lot the taxes had not been paid as had been state to her.
In 1873 two tax deeds had been permitted to be issued on unpaid taxes of 1857 and 1868, which are still a cloud over the title and that the taxes for 1892, 1893, 1894 had not been paid and tax deed sales were standing out against them; that even the taxes for 1895 had not been paid and she did not discover all these leins until 1896 when, in order to cancel them all and redeem the property, she had to borrow $340 at heavy interest.
Mrs. Wilson also alleges that Peter Ganz controlled the eighty acre tract for ten years prior to the partition, in which time he paid her only $125, using the crops and other profits of the land for himself, the tract easily worth $200 per year from the Denver lot, but did not share it with her, runs the charge.
She thinks she is entitled to $500 as her portion of the rent from the eight acre tract and the Denver lot.
Ockers, she says, had control of the 160 acre tract for twelve years, the rental being worth at least $250 a year, but he has given her nothing, it is charges. Claim is made that $600 should be paid to the sister.
Mrs. Wilson sues that this quit-claim deed be set aside for an accounting and for a repatriation.
The brothers are answering in court by saying that while it may be true that the Denver lot is now worth only $500, at the time of the sale, however, it was valued and worth $8,000. They say they did not know that the taxes had not been paid. All the other charges are denied.
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