The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-05-29
Voters Are Invited To Carefully Read The Following Document
Which Is On File In The Office Of The Clerk Of
Courts Of Grant County
And To Then Consider Whether It Is Either Safe Or Wise To
Continue Hin AS County Judge

nominated and appointed executor of
said last will and testament of John
Owen Pierce, and that said last will
and testament of said deceased was
admitted to probate on the thirtieth
day Of June, 1902, in the probate
court, in the county of Franklin and
state IF Ohio, and that letters tesla
mentary thereof were duly issued to
b. +. Milligan, executor aforesaid.
and that the said B. F. Milligan was
then and now is and ever since that
time has been the duly appointed,
qualified and acting executor Of the
last will and testament of said de
ceased. and that said Charlotte Pierce
ever since that time and now is the
duly nominated and appointed guar
dian of the said Clara Owen Pierce,
minor.
3. That the said deceased died
possessed Of certain real property
situate in the county of Grant and
state of South Dakota, as follows:
Lot n and the southeast quarter of
the northeast quarter, and the east
half of the southeast quarter in sec
ton TWO, township one hundred nine
teen, range fifty. of the value of about
$500. 90.
+. That there was duly filed in
the office of the clerk of the county
anjrt within and fCr fhn an,,nf,- of
Grant and the state of South Dakota,
upon the fifteenth day Of August,
1903, a duly exemplitied and certi-
fed copy Of the last will and tesla
ment of John Owen Pierce, deceased,
and proceedings admitting the same
to probate and record thereof, to-wit:
The last will and testament of John
Owen Pierce, deceased, and applica-
ton thereof, entry ordering commits
sion with will annexed, probate Of
will deposition, certificate 10y judge of
probate court, Franklin county, Ohio,
certificate by John W. McCatfertv,
clerk of the court of common pleas,
Franklin county, Ohio.
). That petition for admitting
foreign will to probate and order for
hearing petition, notice of hearing.
in the matter of said estate was filed
III the clerk of county courts office
August Is, 1903, and thereafter and
upon the seventeenth day of August,
1903, affidavit of mailing. notice for
hearing petition, was filed in said
clerk of court office: That affidavit
of publication of notice for hearing
petition was made and filed Septem-
her ), 1903, in the clerk of county
courts office.
e. That upon Septemher29, 1903.
there was made and filed an order
OF 'he county court of Grant county,
state of South Dakota, admitting for
eign as above described to probate in
the matter ofssaid estate, whereupon
A. f. Lindquist was appointed execu-
tor or the estate of John Owen Pierce.
deceased, and upon the third day OF
October, 1903, pursuant to order of
that date made and filed: that there
after the said A. f, Lindquist quail
fled as such executor by making and
filing his bond on October 8, 1903.
in the sum of two hundred dollars,
wherein he is principal, and Emil
johnson and c. A. Erlandson are
sureties, and that upon said fifth day
of October, 1908, the Judge of the
county court of Grant county, South
Dakota, issued to A. I. Lindquis1
letters testamentary, %whereupon the
said A. +. Lindquist took upon him
self the oath of office as such execu,
tor: that thereafter the Judge of the
county court of Grant county, Soutl
Dakota, made an order appointing
+. w. Meehan, +. p. Brockman anG
George Plnckney, as appraisers OF the
property of the said estate, and upon
the same day, to-wit: The fifth day OF
October, 1903, the said executor anC
appraisers made and filed their inven
tory and appraisement wherein they
appraised the real property above
described at the sum of $3.50. 90. anC
these plaintiffs allege that said ap.
} praisers did not examine said land.
and allege upon information and be
!, lief that a majority of said appraisers
never inspected said property and die
not and do not now know the tru.
value of the same. Plaintiffs further
allege that said appraisers acted il
| good faith and to the best of theil
Judgment, however were misinformet
as to the true value of the property
, Z. That the judge of the count,
court made and filed order for publ
cation Of notice to creditors upon sale
fifth day of October, 1903, directing
notice to be published in the Herald
r Advance a weekly newspaper with
!, in and for Grant county, South Dako
1 ia, which notice was thereafter an(
nnon tho aiUhth dav If Ionnorx-