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Show COUNTY IS A CREDITOR OF AN ESTATE In the district court, In the matte! of the estate of Henry Southard, de-teased, de-teased, the attorney for the heir, at. his request, was granted until April 12, to file a contest The case was called this morning on the petition peti-tion for letters of administration mado by tho county commissioners. Tho petition asks that County Clerk Samuel G. Dye be appointed administrator, admin-istrator, it being shown in the petition peti-tion that tho county is creditor of tho estate from the fact that the decedent de-cedent wag cared for at the county Infirmary In-firmary -a. considerable length of tlme prior to his death, under the presumption presump-tion that ho was an indigent, it has been learned that the old gentleman had an estate of several hundred dollars. dol-lars. The contention on the part of the heirs-at-law will be that tho petitioners peti-tioners are not entitled to select the admlnlatrator because they are alleged al-leged creditors of the estate and also al-so for the reason that there Is an heir who has the right of selection. |