Inventory of The Santa Rosa Ranch Papers, 1890-1910

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Inventory of The Santa Rosa Ranch Papers, 1890-1910

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The Santa Rosa Ranch Papers (1890-1910) consist chiefly of correspondence, legal documents, a corporate minute book, and handwritten notes recording the litigation connected with ownership of a large tract of land (89,000 acres) in Hidalgo country known as the "Big Santa Rosa Pasture." Actual litigation took place from 1903 through 1910. Individuals involved in the case were: Dillard Rucker Fant and his wife, Lucy Fant; Daniel J. Sullivan; J. C. Sullivan; James V. Upson; Wiliam R. Elliott; Conrad A. Goeth; James Webb; J. M. Chittim; Archie Parr; Kate V. Elliott; G. G. Clifford; A. E. Chavez; J. A. Galligher; W. M. Sanford; Fred Kelly; F. A. McGown; F. W. Church; H. R. Wood; F. Groos and his wife, Hulda Groos. Legal counsel involved in the proceedings were: James E. Webb and Conrad A. Goeth of Webb and Goeth, F. A. McGown of Denman, Franklin & McGown, and R. L. Ball, all based in San Antonio, Texas. At the onset of the difficulties, Dillard Rucker Fant, a pioneer Texas rancher credited with extending the Chisholm Trail to Corpus Christi, Tex., had leased the Big Santa Rosa Pasture to the cattle-raising partnership of Chittim and Parr. J. M. Chittim was a large rancher in South Texas and Archie Parr, a Texas State Senator. Based on the large annual rent monies Fant had expected to collect from Chittim and Parr, he then also borrowed money from D. Sullivan of D. Sullivan and Company Bankers, and, using the same collateral, borrowed more money from the competing F. Groos and Company Bankers. When Chittim and Parr defaulted on their rent payment for the Big Santa Rosa Pasture to Fant, Fant was then forced to default on his own payments to both banking organizations from whom he had borrowed funds. The bankers, in return, sued and foreclosed on the Big Santa Rosa Pasture. Through the Santa Rosa Ranch Papers extensive set of legal documents, attorneys' memoranda, telegrams, letters, and financial disclosures, a most absorbing story of Texas land politics unfolds.

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German-American attorney, of San Antonio, Tex. From the description of Papers, 1838-1955 ; (bulk 1889-1940). (Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library). WorldCat record id: 70939859 Lawyer of San Antonio, Texas. Conrad A. Goeth began his law practice in 1890 in partnership with William A. Wurzbach in the firm Wurzbach and Goeth. Beginning in 1896, he practiced on his own and in partnership with H.R. Ihrie, and in 1902 joined James E. Webb in the fi...

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