The legal dispute lasted for three years, until 1774, when the court decided that all part owners should pay a share of the debt.
Anna Elisabeth Baer wanted to vote in the Riksdag elections in Turku in 1771, and sent a letter to the governor regarding the matter.
The petition to vote was sent because the election of the burgher city representatives to the Riksdag had already been held, without her having been called to participate in it, despite having the legal right to do so.
However, this right was contested in Finland, where it was not considered proper for women to appear in the town halls to discuss political issues.
The answer to the petition of 1771 was a refusal from the governor, after having consulted the burgher elders of the city of Turku, regarding their view on the matter.
[7] In his answer to Baer's petition to vote, the governor stated that she had no reason to fear that her business rights should be threatened in any way, but: The conditional women's suffrage in Sweden (with Finland) was in any case abolished the following year, when the revolution of 1772 abolished the Age of Liberty in favour of absolute monarchy.