Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-21
SHOWS DISLIKE
TO SON-IN-LAW
Man Who Dropped Dead After Making
Speech Leaves Estate Valued
at oo,ooo-Testament
Is Brief

limiting at a feeling of resentment
toward his son-in-iaw. which even the
ttiiloushts OF death could not appease,
tile VIII of the late George Mason
who dropped dead April "a lust as he
nad concluded a speech before the
IIoneer Chautauqua members of New
ork IN t1astlake park, was filed in tbe
bate. A0i plo-
The son-in-law is r. b. Hart of
springfield, Mo, surviving husband Of
Hart. 0-''0 NiasoIi
1T is provided herein" reads tho
Wits closing paragraph, that r r
Hart shall in no event have anvthinC
10 90 with the management use or
oenent of the property herein referred
The WILL which was written nv Mr.
mason himself, is remarkable for it's
pfeVlty, when the amount of propertv
disposed of is considered. Throurhout
us single page, however, a feeling of
bitterness against the husband of the
testators daughter is revealed. and the
cause of this feeling is hidden among
family secrets.
Inc petition for probate accompany
ing the will places the value of Mr..
mason S estate at about $500, O00 OF
this amount the Mason building,
Fourth and Broadway, is included in
the property statement at more than
half the value of the entire estate, its
appraisement being S4SO0OO.
Other properties included in the state
ment with their values are as follows:
Leaves Much Property
A lot at Second and Hill streets.
valued at $4,000; corner lot at Geary
and Third streets. 100000 several lots
on Seventh street, sec, 1000; office and
store building at Whittier, $21, 900; four
lots in Santa Monica, $4,000; interest in
fifteen and a half sections of grazing
land in Fresno county, 100000; notes
and mortgages, $4,000; shares of stock
in the Magne-Silica company, $500;
stock in the Central National bank, of
which Mr. Mason was president, $1,000:
stock in the Central Trust company,
$500; stock in the Whittier bank, $1000
stock in the Southern California Loan
association, $4,000; money on deposit,
SIS, 600.
Mr.. Mason left a widow three sons
and a daughter, and his will provides
that his property shall be distributed
among them according to law, with
the exception that the part which
would, under the law, fall to the two
daughters of his deceased daughter,
Mrs Nellie Hart, is bequeathed in trust
to Dean Mason and Wayne Mason,
sons of the testator, for the benefit of
the two children.
The trustees are instructed to pay
what they may, in their judgment
think proper, for the education of the
children and their maintenance during
their minority, after which time they
shall be given such sums of money as
are necessary for living expenses I'M
til the death of their father, r. B.
Hart. Provision is also made that the
children be given good homes.
whatever shall remain of the trust
property when the children reach their
majority" says the will, must still
remain in trust until Harris death,
when it shall be divided equally be-
tween them"
Expressive of his further determine
ton that his son-in-law shall not bene-
fit by his death, Mr.. Mason placed
clause in the will providing that if both
his grandchildren should die the prop
erty left to them shall revert to the
estate.