Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 45
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 26, 1907
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Contesting a Will.
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       A case of more than ordinary interest to a large number of people living in the Stamp community was on trial in county court this week. The nature of the case is a contest over a will of the late Daniel Beir, involving property valued at about $10,000.
       Bier made a will in December, 1906, bequeathing all his property consisting principally of about 200 acres of black land, to his half brother, Julius Beir.
       The testor named Wm. Hander as executor and the application to probe the will was filed in due form after the death of Beir.  It is this application that is being by Fritz and August, one of whom is a brother and the other a half brother of the deceased.
       The hearing was begun Tuesday and the taking of testimony was concluded Wednesday.  The evidence will be reduced to writing, signed up and submitted to the court again Saturday, Nov. 2, for final disposition.

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