Ogden Daily Standard | 1890-09-10 | Page 3 | A Six-Hundred-Year-Old Claim

A SIX HUNDRED OLD CLAIM lord Bac baskville kville west the english minister whom president Pies ident cleveland bad had to and borne to keep bis his med nose out of american politics bag has at last found bis tits level some one ot of bia his household bi hia is domestic probably baa has dreamed a dream that bis his illustrious masters waster ancestors held a claim upon the block ot of ground in stratford upon A 4 von now occupied by vi the e shakes I 1 peare memorial fount fountain a lit presented to the city by editor george W childs of the philadel phia ledger on the occasion of the queens jubilee no matter bow how me lord came to know or believe that he owned the ground alluded to his title is a rather ancient one to be sound in every part the town baa has been in peaceable possession sio for upwards of five hundred years notwithstanding this he is suing the town for rental on the property whether he be wants all the alleged rents that b have e or might have accrued during that a t five hundred years we are not informed bat but why not of C course ourse it could not be shown that the stratford people of this generation have realized directly any benefits from the unpaid rents before the barons brought forward the great charter maybe come to think of it lork sackville bad had a forefather in th that at crowd and wants a pension on the strength of it