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Show BODY IN POTTER'S FIELD; HEIRS FIGHT FOR ESTATE Court Is Finally Obliged to Order Burial in Cemetery - and Erection of Monument. . ' 0 MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.. Jan. 4. After two years in the potter's- field, while relatives clamored for a division of his property, the body of John May. a somewhat eccentric and well-ten do citizen who lived nere forty years. Is to be burled in a suitable cemetery lot, and a mon- ument appropriately inscribed is to be set up at the grave. The at- : tendent expenses are to be taken from the considerable estate left by ' the deceased. Probate Judge Knight some time ago notified the7 claimants that the property would not be divided until the bofy had been accorded a burial in accordance with May's circumstances in life. After waiting in vain for the relatives to act upon his suggestion. Judge Knight finally ordered the administrators of the estate to purchase a lot and a monu- ment and proceed with the reinterment. |