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<br />FINAL DECREE
<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
<br />IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE )
<br />OF D E C R E E.
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<br />WILLIAM J.LIKES,D EASED.
<br />Now on this 13th day of May, 1930, this cause came on for hearing upon the petition of Albert
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<br />M.Adams heretofore filed herein, praying that the Court determine and find the date of the
<br />death of the said William J.Likes, deceased; that the said William J.Likes. died intestate;
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<br />that the heirs at-law of the said William J.Likes be determined by the Court and their respective
<br />degree of kinship fixed, and that the right of descent of the real estate of the said William
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<br />J.Likes, deceased, be determined, and it appearing to the Court, from the proofs on file, that
<br />due and legal notice by publication has been given, as by law and the order of this Court
<br />required, to all creditors, heirs and persons interested in the estate of said deceased, of th
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<br />time of the filing of said petition, and of the time and place fixed for the hearing thereon,
<br />which time was for more than thirty days and less than sixty days after the filing of said
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<br />petition, and there being no objections thereto, said cause was duly submitted to the Court
<br />upon the petition and the evidence produced by the petitioner in support thereof, and the
<br />Court being fully advised in the premises finds that the said William J.Likes died intestate j
<br />at Wood River, Nebraska, and that at the time of his death the said William J.Likes was a
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<br />resident and inhabitant of Wood River in Hall County, Nebraska; that the said William J.Likes
<br />died seized of an estate of inheritance in real estate, located in Hall County, Nebraska, con -!
<br />sisting of the ownership in fee simple of an undivided one - twelfth interest in and to the Eastl
<br />Half of the Northwest Quarter (E- yNWJ), and the West Half of the Northeast Quarter (WTNEJ) of
<br />Section Sixteen (16), Township Ten (10), Range Eleven (11) in Hall County, Nebraska; that morel
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<br />than fifteen years have elapsed since the death of the said William J.Likes, and that no
<br />application has ever been made in the State of Nebraska for the appointment of an administrator
<br />of his estate, nor has administration upon the estate of the said William J.Likes,deceased,
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<br />ever been had in the State of Nebraska; that the petitioner herein is now the owner of all of
<br />the following described premises: The East Half of the Northwest Quarter (E -NWJ) and the West
<br />Half of the Northeast Quarter (W2NEJ) of Section 16,Township 10, Range 11, in Hall County,
<br />Nebraska, and is a competent and proper person to institute and prosecute this proceeding. (�
<br />The court further finds that -the said William J.Likes left surviving him his mother,Mary B.
<br />Likes; that the said William J.Likes was nine years of age at the time of his death; that i
<br />he was never married, and left no surviving child or children, and that under the laws of the I(
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<br />State of Nebraska, then in force, the real estate hereinbefore described passed and descended
<br />to his mother,Mary B.Likes.
<br />The court further finds that the said William J.Likes,deceased, left a personal estate suffi-
<br />cient to pay his funeral expenses and debts, and that such funeral expenses and debts have it
<br />been fully'paid; that if any debts existed against the estate of the said William J.Likes,
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<br />deceased, such debts are long since barred by the Statute of Limitations and are now forever
<br />barred and precluded, and the court further finds that the costs of this proceeding have been
<br />paid in full.
<br />The court further finds that at the death of the said William J.Likes,said real estate herein -
<br />before described, was of the value of $1600.00 and that it is now of the gross value of
<br />$1600.00.
<br />IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED by the Court that the said William J.Likes died�
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