Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1906 — THE CIRCUIT COURT. [ARTICLE]

THE CIRCUIT COURT.

The difficult and complicated matter of dividing the Madison Makeever estate is nearing a satisfactory completion, through thegener al spirit of good feeling and fair dealing among the heirs. Of the original estate of about 1,400 acres, 8. P. Thompson gets 100 acres which he has already fenced, as being the interest of the late Rosa Makeever, which he purchased. Mrs. W. 8. Coen as Mr. Makeever’s widow, gets one third in value set off to her for her natural life, and at her death it will be divided among the Makeever children. This portion set off to her is to be in one body, and to include the homestead. She also is to get abso lutely about 22 acres as hep share of the deceased Rosa’s part of 480 in which her interest waS”not~Aold" to Mr. Thompson. All the rest pf the estate has been divided by the Commissioners, Messrs. Strong, Yeoman and Washburn, into ten tracts of equal value, as nearly as they could estimate, though not of the same extent in acres, and these will be divided among the ten surviving children, by lot. Sellers, Foltz and Thompson, as attorneys, representing different ones of the heirs, all advise and agree to this settlement which is also agreed to by the widow and all the children now here.

Another large estate ..which has also long been held jointly, is to be divided up and set off to the heirs in severalty. It is the Thomas Monnett estate and the several sections of valuable land and considerable amount of Rensselaer business property, is to be divided up and set off to the three surviving children, Fletcher, Cordelia and Elmira Monnett. The commissioners appointed by Judge Hanley to make the division, are George F. Meyers, Lucius Strong and David H. Yeoman. They are to make the division and report on the same on or before the third Monday of the pre sent term of court. Farmer Hopkins took a change of venue from the county on his drunk and disorderly case, appealed from Squire Fay’s court at Parr, and which case itself had been venuedlrom Squire Irwin’s court here. The case was sent to Newton county.