Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1911 — Sought to Cut Grandchildren Off With Small Inheritance. [ARTICLE]

Sought to Cut Grandchildren Off With Small Inheritance.

Attorney George A. Williams went to Paxton, 111., this Tuesday morning, where he will look after the interest of Mrs > Maggie Karsten, of this city, in the settlement of the estate of her deceased husband’s father. Mrs. Karsten’s husband was accidently killed about three years ago and she was left with three small children. Since that time both of her husband’s parents have died. The elder Karsten, John by name, was worth about

SBO,OOO and had four children. Three are living, the father of Mrs. Maggie Karsten’s children being the only direct heir dead. This would give the three children a division of $20,000 of the estate, but the will provided only SI,OOO for each of theSft children, and left the other property to the three living children. Mr. Williams is contending that the will should be otherwise construed and hopes to have the court interpret it to give the three grandchildren their full share of the estate. If he fails he will then proceed to have the will set aside and

the property divided according to law. The other heirs have already offered i a compromise, offering $2,000 to each' of the children instead of SI,OOO, but this offer was not considered, and the attorney hopes to procure for their heirs their rightful share of their grandfather’s estate.