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ving in the house at 600 V, in block 49 Oskar, number 23 Stortorget (ow- ned by A-B Skanska Handelsbanken), moved in. The owner at the time was government secretary and assessor Andreas Nordenadler, who had bought it from Riksradet Hardh for 5,000 riksdaler. However, Norde- nadler did not own the property for long. He soon sold it to merchant Frans Suell for 5,300 riksdaler through a transfer of his own purchase deed. On June 2, 1729, Suell submitted his ownership documents to the City Council and received the first notice of his possession. Five days later, a written protest against Suell's registration of the property was submitted to the City Council by Mrs. Elisabeth von Zeschen, née Beck, widow of the patron and district attorney Limnell, as well as on behalf of her brothers, the later Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Beck and Major Corfitz Ludvig Beck of the Southern Skanska Regiment. The issue was that the Beck brothers, who in 1723 had been introduced to the nobility as Swedish noblemen and were the children of the above-mentioned landowner and chamberlain Lave Beck of Andrarum (died 1710) and Leonora Sophia Ulfeldt (died 1698), had reclaimed and pursued the matter.
On the following July 5th, the radstuvuratten (a legal court) resolved that, since Mrs. Elisabeth Beck had not provided any proof of ownership of the property in question to Corfitz Ulfeldt, and had not proven that the property had been illegally taken from Ulfeldt or his heirs, and also had not provided any evidence to legitimize their claims to inheritance, the court could not find any grounds to prevent Frans Suell from com- pleting the purchase of the property, as he had already received an un- disputed title and possession from riksradet Hardh on November 20th, 1727. The only consequence of the Beck siblings' complaint was that Su- ell's purchase of the property was delayed, possibly pending the outcome of their claim of inheritance against the Swedish crown. However, this claim was never pursued further, and Frans Suell remained the owner of the property for the rest of his life without a complete title. The property was occupied by landshovding Cronman until the fall of 1733, when he moved into the newly built and furnished Kungshuset or landshovding- eresidenset (Governor's residence), which was built in 1730 on the site of the previous properties: the old Kungshuset and the Gyllenpalmska hornbyggnaden (Gyllenpalm's courtyard building).
After Cronman's departure, the property, now called Generalsgarden, was taken over by Frans Suell himself for his own and his company
Suell & Steins' business. Finally, the case of the Beck siblings' claim of inheritance against the Swedish crown was resolved on May 21st, 1735, when the Swedish crown, through a resolution from Kammarkollegium (Chamber College), declared that, even though Corfitz Ulfeldt himself had not fulfilled the condition set in the 1660 judgment, his descendants had done so, and that the Ulfeldt properties in Skane should be returned to them as Ulfeldt's heirs, as of the beginning of 1735.
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