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DOCUMENT 132.
SWEDENBORG’S LAW -SUITS .*
During E. Swedenborg’s absence on the continent in 1721
or 1722, died Captain -lieutenant Albrecht De Behm (see
Document 9, p. 87), the only brother of Emanuel’s mother,
Sara Behm. Captain De Behm had served with dis
tinction in the French army, and on his return to Sweden
in 1693 he was ennobled by the king; in 1695 he became
captain -lieutenant in the Swedish army, but soon resigned
his commission an account of ill health and melancholy. His
property, which consisted of two iron -works in Gefle-län, was
administered during his life- time by his sister, Brita Behm ,
widow of Prof. Johan Swede, of Upsal. Her administration
of this property is very much praised by Bishop Swedberg,
in his letters to Johan Rosenadler,51 the Councillor of Chancery,
son-in-law of Brita Behm (See Documents 21 and 23). In
April 1722, after the death of De Behm, a meeting was held by
his heirs for the purpose of dividing their inheritance, but on
account of some claims which were made against her by some
of the heirs, Brita Behm resisted the division of the inheri
tance, and she refused to give up her trust, until these claims
should be withdrawn. Recourse was had by the remaining
heirs, among whom was E. Swedenborg, to the Court of
Appeals, and by this it was ruled, that the division of the
inheritance should be proceeded with at once. The final result
was, that E. Swedenborg purchased the shares of some of
the heirs in the iron furnace at Axmar in Gefle-län, so that
he and Brita Behm become the joint owners of the property :
Brita Behm owning four-fifths, and Swedenborg one-fifth.
The acts of the lawsuit were kindly communicated to the
editor during his stay in Stockholm in 1870, by Secretary S. Berg
ström, who was examining at the time the early Acts of the
Court of Appeal ( Hofrätten ), with a view to their better ar
* Abstract from the records of the Court of Appeals ( Hofrätten ) at
Stockholm , prepared by the editor.
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