WILL AND D�CREE R��ORD No. 10, �- �`�
<br /> 98892-THEAUGUSTINECO.GRANDISLAND,NEBR.
<br /> descent of the said real estate in said Petition described. Testimony was taken and the matter submitted to the Court
<br /> for decree and the Court being fully advised in the premises finds:
<br /> (1) That the Court has heretof ore fixed the time for hearing on said Petition and that notice of the time and place
<br /> of hearing was duly given to all persons interested in said estate as r�quired bp law, and the Court now has ful.l
<br /> jurisdiction to hear and determine said matter and the Court further finds that the said Sherman Zook departed this life
<br /> intestate in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska, June 21, 1892, and that at the time of his death he was a resident of
<br /> Hall County, Nebraska.
<br /> (2) The Court further finds Chat the decedent died intestate seized in fee simple of an estate of inheritance in
<br /> the State of Nebraska, and that at the time of his death the decedent was seized in fee simple of the following
<br /> described real estate, to-wit:
<br /> Lot Six (6), Block Twenty-Two (22) in Packer & Barr�s Second Addition to the Citp of Grand Island, Hall
<br /> County, Nebraska.
<br /> (3) The Court further finds that more than two (2) pears have elapsed since the death of the said Sherman Zook
<br /> and that Application has been made in the State of Nebraska and in this Court for the appointment of an Administrator
<br /> of his estate but that said proceedings are incomplete and that no valid decree of heirship was entered and that it is
<br /> necessarp to make such determination and that these proceedings are instituted for that purpose; that said estate is
<br /> not subject to an inheritance taac and that there are no creditors claiming an interest in said property and that the
<br /> petitioners are the awners of the real estate hereinabove described, having acquired title thereto bp mesne conveyances.
<br /> (4) That the said Sherman Zook, deceased, left him surviving as his sole and only heirs at law the following
<br /> named persons, to wit : Christina Zook, his mother, and Ella M. Counts, his sister, and that title to the within
<br /> described real estate descended to and vested in these named heirs af the deceased.
<br /> IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERFD, ADJUDGED AI�A DECRFED by the court that the said Sherman Zaok departed this life
<br /> intestate more than two �2) years prior to the filing of the Petftfon herein on June 21, 1892, and that he left
<br /> surviving as his sole and only heirs at law the follawing named persons, to-wit: Christina Zook, mother, and Ella M.
<br /> Counts, sister, and by reason of the premises fee simple title to the real estate hereinabove described descended and
<br /> vested at the time of his death in the above named heirs at law of the said Sherman Zook, deceased.
<br /> Dated this 16th day of April, 1952.
<br /> BY THE COURT
<br /> (SEAL) Charles Bossert
<br /> COUNTY JUDGE
<br /> � In the County Court of Hall County, Nebraska
<br /> Certificate
<br /> S TATE OF NEBRASKA )
<br /> ) ss. I, Charles Bossert, County Judge of Hall Countp, Nebraska, do hereby certify that I
<br /> HALL COUNTY ) have compared the foregoing copy of Decree entered IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
<br /> SHERMAN ZOOK, DFCEASED, with the original record thereof, n�► remaining in said Court,
<br /> that the same is a correct transcript thereof, and of the whole of such original record; that said Court is a Court of
<br /> Record having a seal, which seal is hereto attached; that said Court has no Clerk authorized to sign certificates in
<br /> his own name, a.nd that I am the legal custodian of said Seal and of the Records of said Court, ancl that the foregoing
<br /> attestation is in due form of law.
<br /> IN TESTIMOIv'Y WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, at Grand Island, �his
<br /> 16th day of April, 1952
<br /> Charles Bossert
<br /> (SEAL) County Judge
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<br /> WILL AND DF,CREE ^,/
<br /> LAST WILL AIV'D TESTAMENT OF TENA HANSSEN.
<br /> I, Tena Hanssen, now residing at 929 South Locust Street, in Grand Island, Nebraska, do hereby make, publish and
<br /> declare this my last will and testament and I hereby revoke all f ormer wills and testaments by me heretof ore made, as
<br /> follvws:
<br /> ITEM ONE: Subject to the power of sale conferred on my executor in Item Three below respecting my personal
<br /> property only, I give, devise a.nd bequeath Lots One (1) and Eight (8) of Block Sixteen (16) of South Grand Island, an
<br /> addition to the City of Grand Island, in Hall County, Nebraska, where I now reside, and all other property, both real
<br /> and personal, now owned or hereafter acquired by me, to my son, Arnold H. Hanssen, of Hall County, Nebraska, providing
<br /> he survives me, subject nevertheless to a life estate therein hereby conveyed to his father, J. M. Hanssen, should he
<br /> survive me, said J. M. Hanssen, my husband, to take the rents, issues and profits therefrom, should he survive me, for
<br /> and during his natural life. And should my said husband, ,j. M. Hanssen die before me, the absolute title to a11 said
<br /> r property on my death shall vest in our said son, Arnold N. Hanssen, should he survive me.
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<br /> u ITEM Ttti'0: Should my sai.d son, Arnold H, Hanssen, die before me, in that event only, I give devise and bequeath
<br /> � al1 the property as at�ove devised and hequeathed to my said son to his children and wife, Paula Hanssen, who shall
<br /> ro take the property in the manner provided in Item bne, which mp son, Arnold Hanssen, would have taken under this will
<br /> � had he survived me, in the following proportions- one fourth part to Patila Hanssen, his wife, should she survive me, �
<br /> ; . and the rema.ining three fourths to the chil.dren of Arnold H. Hanssen and should Paula Hanssen also die before me, �
<br /> � then the one fotxrth interest devised and bequeathed to Paula Hanssen if my said son dies before me shall also go to
<br /> the children of Arnold H. Hanssen, the childrEn taking equa'ly share and share alike.
<br /> ITEM THREF; I nominate and appoint my said son, Arnold H, Hanssen, executor of this will and provide he shall not
<br /> Pa.ge 2. be reQizired *.,o give hond or surety as such executor. I authorize a.nd empower my executor to sell, assign and transfer
<br /> any personal pronerty only which I may own at my death at such price and on such terms and conditions as to him shall
<br /> seem best without obtaining any order or license of any court or judge- the proceeds of sale to be disposed of by r►�y
<br /> executor as provided in this c�ri ll for the personai propert3�,
<br /> In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand to this my last will a.nd testament in duplicate and subscribed my
<br /> name on the margin of the first page hereof at Grand Island, Nebraska this 9th day of February, 1944 and I provide that
<br /> either copy c�f this wi.11 may be probated as ar original.
<br /> Tena Ranssen
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