Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-23
PROBATE NOTICE.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, J
COUNTY COURT FOR
RUSK COUNTY:

STATE OF WISCONSIN,
COUNTY COURT FOR
| RUSK COUNTY:
| IN PROBATE
In the matter of the last will and test
| ament of Luther G. Porter, deceased.
! On reading and filing the verified
petition of Henry E. Fletcher alleging
among other things that Luther C.
| Porter died, at Minneapolis, Minnesota
on the 23d day of October, 1898, being
then resident of said city and state;
| that said decedent left last will and
testament which has heretofore been
admitted to probate in the Probate
Court for Hennepin County, Minnesota;
that said foreign will was thereafter
| filed and recorded as such in this Court
and letters teStamentary thereupon
have issued to Henry E. Fletcher who
has qualified as such executor, and
ever since has been and now is acting
as such executor; that the property
constituting said estate or some part
thereof, is, or may be, subject to the
payment of an inheritance tax under
the laws of the State of Wisconsin,
providing for a tax on gifts, inherit
ances, requests, legacies, devises and
SUGGESTIONS IN certain cases.; that no
proceedings have been instituted in
this court to determine said inheritance
tax, If any, and praying that an order
OF this Court be entered, appointing a
competent person as appraiser to fix
the fair market value at the time OF
the transfer thereof, of the property
constituting said estate, or that this
Court, without appointing an appraiser,
upon giving twenty days notice by
mail to all persons known to be inter
ested in said estate, of the time and
place OF hearing, proceed at the time
SO fixed, to hear evidence and deter
mine the cash value of said estate and
the amount of tax to which the same
is liable
NOW, THEREFORE, on motion of
said petitioner;
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that
said petition and all matters connected
herewith, be heard by this Court,
without the appointment of an apprais-
er, at the County Court Room, in the
Court House, in the City of Ladysmith
in the county and state aforesaid, at
the special term of said court, begin
ming on the 4th Tuesday of October,
1909, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, or
as soon thereafter as counsel can be
heard, a t which tt me and place
this Court will hear evidence and de-
termine the cash value of such estate
and the amount of tax to which the
same is liable.
1T is FURTHER ORDERED that
notice of the hearing on said petition
be given by mailing copy of this order
to all persons known to be interested
in said estate, including the attorney
general of the State of Wisconsin, and
the Public Administrator of Rusk
County if any at least twenty days be-
fore the said time so fixed.
AND 1T IS FURTHER ORDERED
that notice of said hearing be given to
all persons interested is said estate
whose addresses are unknown, by pub
LEGATION of this order for three success
sive weeks prior to the time fixed for
such hearing in The Ladysmith News
Budget, newspaper published in said
County of Rusk and State of Wisconsin.
Dated this 21st day of September,
1909.
By the Court.
L. E. MCGILL, County Judge.
Ryan and Runke, Attorneys, Merrill,
Wisconsin. 25-3