The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-03-03
Son Claims Against
His Father s Estate
Unique Document Filed In Pro-
bate at Austin BY Charles
w.. Cressey

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bill of claims which he has against
the estate of his father, the late Rev.
Alfred Cressey. Charley's net claims
amount to $9,627.79. The whole es-
tate Is $15,304.50. Some of these
claims are most unusual and are with
out parallel in our probate court.
Charles Cressey has one claim or
$500 with interest on that amount Tor
nine years, the total amount being
$154.00 because he did not get a we'd
ding present of 500 his father pro-
missed him.
Another claim is for 500 and in
terest, total amount Of $172.8O. This
is for the repayment OF $100 that
Charley sent his father when the old
| gentleman was visiting in England.
Then there is another claim for the
value of the head stone for Mother"
Charles claims cover pages OIL
manuscript and are read by the mem
bers Of the legal fraternity with man
ifest enjoyment.
The statement to the court not only
includes items Of claims but also
some suggestions as to how the
claimant would like the court to acts.
AS a novel document it will rank with
the best, with the emphasis on the
rank. The statement opens as fol-
lows:
Opening of Statement
| I'm the year 1887 / was then en-
ployed in Austin, In store, clerk mat
summer. / had work done at the
Maple street house of Alfred Cressey
fling UP the duck pond, ETC., $250.U0
Looking after the filling Of the
same, leveling off dirt and planting
grass seed 5000" That work
the court for interest on this amount
for "a years at per cent more than
double the bill or $4,000. ..
| The next entry in 1895 and rea Is
as follows: Il worked at 81 Ken
wood avenue. Painted the house and
barn a deep red, and never painted
since, upper part of house painted as
it now is, graded the yard inside.
dug four large trees, graded for the
the place from February 1895 to
October at 500 per month, which
would be eight months. ...... never
had pay for 1t $500. Interest on 80
| for twenty six years $1,24S."
March Is, 1893 / went into the
furniture business and from that time
forth, was handling the renting and
looking after Alfred Cresey's proper
ty and working about his places Ought
| W nave pay AoI LWSnly -Aoui years "a
| $50 year, or 81 zoo. / want interest
! on all the amounts, / have not fig
ured out in six per cent interest"
item of Interest
| Here is an item that will be read
| with especial interest by those who
4 were acquainted with Rev. Mr.. Cres-
sey and his son Charles w. G.: APP
ri is, 1903 my father borrowed some
money from me which reduced my
note for $500 to $14z1 which had
been drawing six per cent interest
was given his father when Charles
purchased the west forty five feet Of
/ the property at 131 Removed avenue.
i 81 was not to have the deed until
paid Alfred Cressey for the lot so
never paid him this note and do not
have the deed so I want this note Of
] $1421 and interest set aside"
/ Here is the claimants suggestion
to the court, 81 think the best way is
to have this note set aside and let the
lot remain with the rest Of the estate
and not have this figured against
| Charles Cresseys share"
/ Here is the most unusual clam
that was ever made, for IS to collect
| the value Of a wedding present prom
/ Used but not delivered. The item reads
as follows: 'Tn the year 1912, Nov
ember 81, Alfred Cressey wrote let
ter, left at the home of George Schra-
daughter Ef.zabeth) for Charles w.
G. Cressey and Elizabeth Cressey.
| his wife, as a wedding present the
4 amount of $1su. We never got the
| $10e note and I want the interest
AIDED thereto, six per cent interest
for nine years, amount OF interest
$500" 49,.
Trip To England
| In 1909 Rev. Alfred Cressey visited
England and on his return he men
toned to friends that one of the plea
sures of bis trip was gift of 500
which he got from his son Charley.
Under the side caption 1903" Char
ley puts in claim for the return OF
this 500 with interest for twelve
years, the total value of the gift IN
vestment as set forth in he claim is
Sl72- - . .
are too long to itemize S4,446.14 on
short notice. / will explain (presum-
ably to the court) as to how interest
on same ought to be fgureu out,
Jumping it into years from date be-
| ginning with this date"
Then follows a long table showing
merchandise furptshed" and interest
| for 1904 and many years SucceeuInS.
Here are few of the samples: 1904,
merchandise furnished S494.l5, inter-
est $5o4 06s 1905, merchandise fur
| nished $428.s7, interest SALSA; 1906,
merchandise furnished, SS5o.73 In
/ terest $315,60..
! In the year 1905" Charley writes
! In his statement to the court he en-
tered into an agreement with his ia
1 Their Rev. Alfred Cressey lin regard
| to a tomb stone for the family lot III
lakewood cemetery whereby Charles
Cressey was to purchase the tomb
stone and the estate was to pay Char
| les Cressey for the same"
| Purchase Of Tombstone
The next paragraph relates thai
| Charles w. G. Cresey purchased the
tomb stone and had 1t placed on the
lot marked Cressey, also two heal
stones were furnished at SIS each,
one for Mother and the other for
Mary Gardner, our sister,"
This outlay Of the "Cressey' tomb
stone and the head stone for Moth
| err and Sister" came to $500. The
| interest on these sepulchral invest
ments amounts to $4,000 making the
total $73600
| Rev. Alfred Cressey died in this
| CITY by gas asphyxiation at his Ken
wood avenue home May 10, at the
! age of eighty three years. He left
/ an estate appraised at SIS, 304.b0. HIS
| $50. rhorlovsc f0faI claim AGAINST the