A Bank Moves Against the Dennys
In 1895, a $15,735 note and a mortgage on lots in Denny & Fuhrman’s Addition put one of Seattle’s founding families in the path of foreclosure.
Another bolt against the Dennys.
The Seattle National Bank yesterday began suit against David T. Denny, W. G. Dickinson, Hulda M. Smith, John B. Denny, D. Thomas Denny, the Rainier Power & Railway Company, A. P. Fuller, the Puget Sound National Bank, and a long list of other defendants including banks and businesses. The bank seeks to recover $15,735, interest, and attorney’s fees due on promissory notes, and to foreclose a mortgage on numerous lots in Denny & Fuhrman’s Addition.
“Another bolt against the Dennys.”
The Denny name is everywhere in Seattle, but this 1895 foreclosure reminds us that founding-family land was also leveraged, litigated, and lost. Modern fights over property debt and who gets to hold urban land echo the same mix of boosterism and risk.
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