Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — APPRAISERS1 TRIP IS CALLED OFF. [ARTICLE]

APPRAISERS 1 TRIP IS CALLED OFF.

Referee Bowers Finally Decides That It will Be Too Expensive. Marion I. Adams, whose going to Arkansas to look at land belonging to the defunct Remington bank, was mentioned <in Saturday’s Democrat, will not go at all for the reason as assigned by Referee Bowers that the estate could not stand the expense that would be incurred. The for the trip for all three appraisers and the trustee had been negotiated for, and in fact Bowers had informed the men

that it would be neccessary to go to see this property to comply with the law, but Mr. Adams received a letters from Judge Darroch, attorney for the creditors, Sunday stating that he had seen the referee Friday and he had decided that the expense incurred would not justify the trip. There is one thing that may have helped very materially to come to the above decision and that is that the hotel bills and other expenses incurred last winter in appraising the mostly worthless stuff left after Parker closed the doors his “bank,” have never been paid, and the appraisers gave the Referee to understand that the necessary cash to make the trip must be* put up before it would be undertaken. Mr. Pettit is said to havs given Bowers to understand that his time was worth $lO a day and that his taxes being $1,200 a year he had to make that much else he could not pay them. Whether the law making this trip necessary has been changed or whether Bowers has made a new one we are not advised, but that the trip will not be made now seems certain. --