San Francisco Call, Volume 74, Number 151, 29 October 1893 — DISPUTED DEEDS. [ARTICLE]

DISPUTED DEEDS.

The Titles Called Into Question. More Complications for the Lawyers in the Famous Heydenfeldt Case. Some days ago Judge Coffey of the Pro. bate Court entered an order declaring Elizabeth A. Heydenfeldt the widow of tbe late Judge Solomon Heydenfeldt, and sustaining the will giving her a life interest in the property of the decedent The contestant, Henrietta Heydenfeldt, who also claimed to be the Judge's widow, did not press her case, and this was said to be due to a compromise arranged by her lawyer, J. L. Crittenden. - -Yesterday, two deeds were filed in the Recorder's office which appear to throw a little light on the inside of the case. The first document is a deed made on October 23, 1893, by which Elizabeth A. Heydenfeldt deeds to Henrietta H. Heydenfeldt the property situate on the north, east corner of Geary and Webster streets. The second document is a quitclaim deed by which the first named party deeds to the second named all her life interest in tbe following pieces of property: Lots on Sacramento and Leidesdorff streets, Fol. som and Third, Montgomery and Jackson, Bryantand Seventh, Clementina and Fifth, Washington and Trenton and Powell and Washington. JBBBBSaBRSSi It is claimed that this property was deeded to the children of Catherine Heydenfeldt, deceased, by Judge Heydenfeldt during bis lifetime, and that Elizabeth A. Heydenfeldt, the widow, has no interest in the property at all, because it belongs te the children. . The deeds to Henrietta Heydenfeldt, who withdrew from the contest, show that there was some compromise made. No objection is made by the children's I attorney to the first deed, as Elizabeth A. Heydenfeldt is acknowledged to have a claim to it. But the second quitclaim deed is objected to and will lead to another squabble in this much litigated estate. The whole question is: Did tbe order ot Judge Coffey give Elizabeth A. Heydenfeldt a life interest in the property mentioned, which is claimed to have been given to the children? Attorney Crittenden.. who has already got 515.000 out of the estate under the court's decision, is the attorney for Henrietta Heydenfeldt. . The. children's attorneys claim that bis only desire is to cloud the title to the property. ■ ■■■''-■ ■ ■