Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1916 — 117 SHARE IN SMALL ESTATE [ARTICLE]

117 SHARE IN SMALL ESTATE

Distribution of $188.63 Made by Judge M. E. Bash in the Probate Court at Indianapolis—Smallest Part Four Cents.

Indianapolis, Dec. 1. —Distributing an estate of $188.03 among the branches of a family tree, which occupied eight typewritten pages and included 117 persons, was the problem to which Judge Malilon E. Bash announced the answer in Probate court. The distribution included awards ranging from four cents to $13.47. The estate was that of Mrs. Elizabeth Eskew, who died February 9, 1914. She was one of. a family of 15 children. Her father, David Stoops, was married twice and had seven children by his first wife and eight by his second. Mrs. Eskew died with no children or parents living, and Judge Bash ruled that her next of kin entitled to inherit were two brothers and the descendants of 12 brothers and sisters, who are dead. In passing on the evidence in support of the proof of heirship, the court found 117 persons were entitled to particithe distribution of the estate, which amounted to $188.(53 after all debts and costs of administration were paid. The surviving brothers are entitled to $13.47. each and the remaining 12 shares are divided among the descendants, or next kin. of each brother and sister, who are dead. One brother, who is dead, was the father of fen children, whose ninth child, a son, died before the death of Mrs. Eskew, leaving as his heirs three grandchildren. Each grandchild will receive 1.-315th of his great-grandfather’s share, or 1-4410th of the amount of distribution. shares amount to four cents each. The eight pages of the family tree were incorporated in the court’s order of distribution.