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<br />WILL AND DECREE RECORD
<br />20081 —The Augustine Co., Grand Island, Nebr.
<br />The court further finds that the said Frances A. Wickersham departed this life testate on the
<br />14th day of April, 1946, and at the time of her death she was a resident and inhabitant of Hall
<br />County, Nebraska.
<br />The court further finds that on or about the 19th day of April, 1946 J. B. Beltzer, Trust
<br />Officer of the Grand Island Trust Company, a corporation, and Mae Spohn Iams filed in this court
<br />their duly verified petition praying for the allowance and probate of an instrument purporting to
<br />be the Last Will and Testament of the said Frances A. Wickersham, deceased, and the court there-
<br />upon fixed the 17th day of May, 1946 as the date for making proof of said Last Will and Testament,
<br />and due notice of the filing of said petition and the time and place fixed for hearing thereon was
<br />given by the court in the manner provided by law; and that on the 17th day of May, 1946, the date
<br />fixed for that purpose, the instrument was duly proven, allowed and admitted to probate as and for
<br />the Last Will and Testament of Frances A. Wickersham, and letters testamentary were duly issued to
<br />the Grand Island Trust Company, a corporation, and Mae Spohn Iams, the executors named in said
<br />Last Will and Testament and they duly qualified as such.
<br />The court further finds that due and legal notice has been given to all persons of the time
<br />and nla.ce fixed by the court for the presentation of claims against the estate, and the time so
<br />fixed has fully expired, and that all persons having claims against said estate, not filed herein,
<br />if any such tiaere be, are forever barred and excluded from setting up or asserting any such claim
<br />against said estate.
<br />The court further finds that there is no inheritance tax or no estate tax due in said matter.
<br />The court further finds that the said Frances A. Wickersham died seized in fee simple of the
<br />following described real-estate, to -wit:
<br />The Northeast Quarter (NE4) of Section Twenty -eight (28), Township Ten (10) North, Range Twelve
<br />(12) West of the Sixth P. M. in Hall, County, Nebraska.
<br />and that the said real estate and all interest therein pas -sed and descended under and by virtue
<br />of the Last Will and Testament of Frances A. Wickersham, deceased, to the Grand Island Trust
<br />Company of Grand Island, Nebraska, a corporation, and Mae Spohn Iams, trustees.
<br />The court Further finds that the said executors have paid special bequests as provided for
<br />under the terms and conditions of paragraph two and paragraph three of said Last Will and Testa-
<br />ment.
<br />The court further finds that under the provisions of the fourth paragraph of the Last Will
<br />and Testament of said Frances A. Wickersham, deceased, that she instructed her executors and
<br />trustees to dispose of tree real estate hereinbefore described when the sum of Twenty Thousand
<br />020,000.00) Dollars may be obtained for the same; that the said executors secured a guaranteed
<br />bid of this amount for the aforedescribed real estate and sold the same for the sum of Twenty -
<br />three Thousand Three Hundred Sixty (423,360.00) Dollars which is in excess of the said Twenty
<br />Thousand ($20,000.00) Dollars as provided for in the said Last Will and Testament, but that there
<br />was a question with reference as to whether they could deliver a good and sufficient Executors
<br />and Trustees Deed until the trust estate as provided in said Last Will and Testament of the said
<br />Frances A. Wickersham had been set up and the trustees had duly qualified; that the purchaser has
<br />jDaid to said executors 20% of the amount of said bid which has enabled said executors to pay all
<br />the special bequests, claims filed against said estate, and costs of administering said estate
<br />and that in the payment of attorney fees and executors fees the court has considered that the
<br />fees allowed to said attorney and executors are in full based on the total sell ,price of StLid
<br />farm, and that no additional attorney fees or executors fee shall be allowed in so: trust estate
<br />either for the selling of the farm or for the collection of the purchase price thereaf.
<br />The court further finds that there was a claim due the estate of the said Frances A.
<br />Wickersham in the amount of Sixty ($60.00) Dollars from David Schmidt for cash rent. That the
<br />corn crop groin on the aforedescribed premises was not sold and that it was part of the assets of
<br />said estate and that there is a possible inheritance due to the Estate of Frances A. Wickersham
<br />from the estate of her deceased sister, Mamie C. O'Brien, deceased, which is being probated in
<br />the County of Multnomah in the State of 0tegon and that the court has heretofore ordered said
<br />executors to assign said interests to the trust esta.tefor delivery to the trustees as soon as they
<br />have been appointed and qualified.
<br />Ii IS THEREFORE ^RDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED by the court that the final report of the Grand
<br />Island Trust Company, a corporation, and Mae Spohn Iama, executors of the Last Will and Testa-
<br />ment of Frances A. Wickersham, be and the same is hereby approved and allowed as their final report.
<br />That the estate is hereby settled and closed and the executors descharged and their bondsmen
<br />released as soon as they have complied with the 'further order of this court in transferring the
<br />money in their hands and the assignment of certain claims to the trustees of the trust estate of
<br />Frances A. Wickersham, deceased, as set up by her Last Will and Testament as soon as said trustees
<br />have been appointed and have qualified.
<br />IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED by the court that all claims against said estate
<br />have been paid; that due and legal notice has been given to all persons of the time and place
<br />fixed by the court for the filing of claims against said estate and that the time fixed for
<br />filing claims has fully expired and that all persons having claims against said estate not filed
<br />herein, if any such there be, are forever barred and extluddd from setting up or asserting any
<br />such claims against said estate.
<br />IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED by the court that under and by virtue of the Last
<br />Will and Testament of Frances A. Wickersham, deceased, the title to the real estate hereinbefore
<br />described did pass and descend to the Grand Island Trust Company, a corporation, and Mae Spohn Iams
<br />as trustees.
<br />IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED by the court that the executors are ordered and
<br />directed to set up a trust estate for the said Frances A. Wickersham, deceased, in accordance
<br />with the terms and conditions of the Last Will and Testament of the said Frances A. Wickersham,
<br />deceased, and are further directed to pay to the trustees of said trust estate as soon as they
<br />have been appointed and qualified all of the moneys, namely, One Thousand Six Hundred Twenty -five
<br />Dollars and Twenty -three Cents ($1,625.23) and the assignment of claims which you have been
<br />heretofore ordered and directed to execute and upon your so doing, the estate will be settled and
<br />closed, the executors discharged and their bond released.
<br />By The Court:
<br />Charles Bossert
<br />JUDGE
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