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,414 <br />MLL AND DEGREE RECORD No. 2 <br />DECREE DETERMINING SUCCESSION.. <br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY,NEBRASKA. <br />In the matter of the estate <br />of ) DECREL DETERMINING SUCCESSION. <br />John G.Menck, Deceased. <br />Now on this 12th day.of August, 1919, this cause came on for hearing upon the petition of Lent <br />Menck, widow, of John G.Menck, deceased, praying for a decree determining the death, the heirs at <br />law of said deceased, the degree of kinship of said heirs and the right of his real estate, and <br />i <br />it appearing to the court from the proof on file that due and legal notice has been given to all <br />persons interested both creditors and heirs at law, by publication for three successive weeks, <br />required by, law and the order of this court, of the filing of said petition and of the time and <br />place fixed for the hearing, which time was more than thirty days and less than sixty days after <br />the filing of said petition, and no objection or protest having been made or filed thereto, said <br />cause was submitted to the court upon the petition and the evidence of the petitioner in its <br />support. The court being fully advised in the premises finds that the allegations in said petiti <br />are true, that said John G.Menck died intestate in McLean County, Illinois, on the 27th_4ay of <br />March, 1910, being the time of his death a resident and inhabitant of said County and State, a <br />that he died seized of an estate of inheritance in Hall County.Nebraska, and that more than two <br />years have elapsed since his death and that no application has been made in the State of Nebrask <br />I, <br />for the appointment of an administrator for his estate and that there has been no administration <br />of his estate. <br />The court further finds that the said John G.Menck left surviving him as his heirs at law and <br />his only heirs at law, the following named persons: Lena Menok, his widow, Henry J.Menck, his so #, <br />Mildred D.Knight, nee Menck, his daughter, Agnes E.Nelson, nee Menck, his daughter, Harry C.Menc#, <br />his son, Eleanor M.Wade, nee Menck, his daughter, Erma Menck, his daughter, Lloyd C.Menck, his s <br />and Herman G.Menck, his son; that the said Lloyd C.Menck and Herman G. Menck are minors and thati <br />all of the other named heirs are above the age of twenty -one years; that Lena Menck, his widow, <br />is not the mother of all of the children of said John G.Menck, deceased. <br />The court finds that the said John G.Menck died seized in fee of an estate of inheritance in <br />Hall County, Nebraska, being an undivided one- fourth interest in the following described real <br />estate situate in the County of Hall and State of Nebraska, to -wit: <br />All of the North half (Nei) of the South -west quarter (SW) and the South -east Quarter {SEA} of <br />the South -west quarter (SW�) and the North -west quarter (NW -J) of the South -east quarter (SEA) <br />of Section Fourteen (14) in Township Eleven (11), north. of Range Nine (9), west, of the 6th <br />P.M., except three strips of ground described as follows: <br />y <br />A strip of ground One Hundred (100) feet wide across the north half (N **) of the South -west <br />quarter (S.W.i) of said Section 14, it being fifty feet on each side of the center line of the <br />railroad of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company as same is now located and con- <br />structed upon the North half (NJ) of the South -west quarter (SWJ) of said Section 14, and a stri <br />of ground One Hundred and Fifty (150) feet wide across the South -east quarter (SE +) of-the Soutr <br />i <br />west quarter (SWI) of said Section 14, it being fifty feet wide on the Xorth side and One hundre <br />E feet wide on the South side of the center line of the railroad of the Chicago, Burlington and <br />j Quincy Railroad Company as same is now located and constructed across said South -east quarter <br />(SEi-) of the South -west quarter (SW-J) of said Section 14, and a strip of ground commencing at <br />a point Two rods south of the North -west corwer of the South -west quarter (Sw�) of said Section <br />i <br />14, running thence north two rods to the North -west corner of the Southwest quarter (SWJ) of s4 <br />Section 14, thence east 80 rods to the North east corner of the northwest quarter (NWi) of the <br />South west quarter (SW-) of said Section Fourteen, thence in a westerly direction to the place <br />0 <br />C <br />1 <br />1 <br />L] <br />