Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1917 — Going After A Slice Of $400,00 Estate [ARTICLE]

Going After A Slice Of $400,00 Estate

Charles H. Mitchell, eldest son of Ingram Michtell, who died at Talbot in Benton county, on September 28 last, has brought suit in the Benton circuit court to contest the will of his father, which was probated at Fowler on the fifteenth day of October last. The complaint alleges that the estate is worth over $400,000, consisting of more than 1,200 acres of land in Benton county, 960 acres of land in Kansas, 640 acres of land in North Dakota, and a large amount of personal property, consisting of stock in different corporations, money, grain, life insurance, live stock, etc. The complaint says in his complaint that he is the son and only surviving child of Ingram Mitchell by a former wife who died many years ago; that at the time of her death Ingram Mitchell already owned a large portion of the land that he owned when he died; that after the first wife died he married the present Mrs. Mitchell, who has five children. By the will all the property goes to the widow and her five children, except about $6,000 in property which is willed to the complainant.. Charles H. Mitchell alleges in his complaint that he is practically disinherited; that the will is invalid because at the time of making it his father was of unsound mind and incapable of making a will, and that the will is the result of undue influence and is really not the will of the father.