Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1902 — End of Willie Stone’s Legacy [ARTICLE]

End of Willie Stone’s Legacy

Young William Goddard Stone, whom Judge Thompson placed provisionally in the care of P. W. Liston, of near Fair Oaks, as an alternative to sending to the reform school, also saw his finish as a real-estate magnate in Rensselaer. The suit to break the latter part of the late Reason Goddard’s will was successful. Or rather the Illinois heirs who brought it, had so clear a case that the suit was compromised. When Mr. Goddard made his will several years before his death, he made it in two parts. In one part he willed to Mrs. Jane Kinney his residence on Front street. In the second part he described the 50 foot business lot on the same street, occupied by his ice bouse, and by a poultry house. He left blank places for the name of the party to whom this was to be willed explaining to the witnesses that he would put in the name of Allie Kinne/ and her husband after her marriage whidß was then soon to take place. Instead however, he put in the Stone boys name as legatee of th at lot, but did not have the will witnessed after so doing. Hence that part of the will was invalid. But to avoid litigation a compromise was affected whereby $250 is paid to the Stone boy’s guardian for his benefit, and he is allowed to keep the rents and profits of the lot up to this time. There are 13 heirs of Mr. Goddard, living in Illinois, who will have a share in the property, or what is left of it after their attorneys here receive the very liberal portion coming to them for their services.