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Show ATWOQO ESTATE LEASE APPROVED BY COURT (J. S. Holmes Secures Valuable Piece oi Property for Fifty Years. .Tudgo Ritchie heard the application of 'he trustees of the estauc of Mlllen At-wnod, At-wnod, deceased, W doesday, for permission permis-sion to lease to G. S. Holmes, for a term of fifty yrarp, a large area of property on the northeast corner of State and Second South street. What Will Provided for. The will provided ihat no leaso should be entered Into for a longer period than twenty years, but. as the trustees could not lease the property advantageously for less than fifty years, the court was asked to give them the necessary permission. The will, which was made many years ago. provided that the estate was not to be distributed until the youngest grandchild grand-child reached Its majority. How- Attorneys Construed Case. The attorneys In the ease construed this to refer to grandchildren not born at the lime the IH was executed utjil as it re-lers re-lers to grandchildren who may yet be born. It would be difficult to toll Just when the estate could be distributed. Older Permittinp; Loans. After listening io the provisions of the I will and the showing made bv the trus-I trus-I tees. Judge Rueliic enter, d the order pcr- mltting the ase to be made. Mr. Holmes proposes to put up bulld- ings costing 1100,000 on the property. |