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Show II OPEN STRUGGLE IN HILLFA1LY h ; I Seven Heirs Are Lined Up l H Against Louis V. Hill in Estate Contest Ra ST. PAUL., Minn . Feb. 10. That j 'ifij he was the leader in t hi flpht of th, fJm J seven heirs of Mn James J. Hill 1 jm ..rnlnut I.ouis U Hill was ndmlttefl I ""H by James N. Hill late Thursday in the probate court hearing of the con- Hf ipti fr appointment of an adminls-ir.iinr adminls-ir.iinr for his mother's $1 2,000,000 H estate. INQUIRY DEMANDED. James N Hill said ho was deter- I mined to know "w hat had been goinc: 1 on" in his mother's business affairs during the last two years and had I .nstlcated changes in tho diroctorat" I I ,,f th Northwestern Trust rumpnj I 1 St. Paul, which the seven allied heirs h 1 seek to have mini'' !idmlnltrator. I I Louis asks that he be appointed. I charging that the other heirs made an attempt to undo many benefai -Hons of their mother and. by return-I return-I ing certain properties to hex estate, share In ;i division of such assets c Mr mil testified that h question: 5 cd the validity of a deed by Mrs. J. 2 J. Hill to North Oaks, large county t home established bv his f.ather north jjj ..f St Paul, by Which th- property ..1 ind (738,000 in bonds .-ni to Louis g QUARREL REVEALED . Iti a letter dated December 2. 1921, jH addressed to the other heirs he urged SpP them to Join him in a 'law suit to r.UL jf-store tti" affairs in the estate of "f mother to the same position th-y were two years ago. ' He said he had In mind the farm deed and bonds. The vitncF9 declared he had ex-pected ex-pected his mother virtually to "cut him off" from sharing In his estate because of a long standing cstrange-IHH cstrange-IHH ment and that he was "greatly snr- IK9 prised" when he was made the bene- El flciary under one of her trusts. ICH John J Toomev, for two years EjH years confidential secretary to Mr Fa iind Mrs James J Hill, said that the EB widow had told bini more than a year H before her death that she desired to BsjW deed the North Oak farm to Louis. |