Nephew Appointed Administra-for of Estate Worth Tls. 70,000
At the U.S. Court on Monday Judge Purdy heard a petition for the appointment of Mr. R. M. Davis as executor of the estate of Daisy Grace Blondeau, who died at sea on her way from America to Shanghai.
Mr. Tycho Wing, who appeared for Mr. Davis, said that deceased in company with petitioner and his wife left Seattle on January 27 in the str. President MeKinley. Mrs. Blondeau died on January $0, the body being brought to Shanghai for burial. The will which he (counsel) presented to the Court, expressed the wish that Mr. and Mrs. Davis appointed ce-executors without bond, Mr. Wing added that a difficulty' arose owing to the fact that Mr. Davis was a stranger in Shanghai' and further that the will was executed in Seattle. If Mr. Davis could not be appointed executor at fence he asked to act as special administrator, for certain of deceased's property was of a very transitory nature, which sub-tenants now o¢- cupied. The nephew, counsel went fon to state, has had many letters addressed to him in deceased's handwriting in his possession and other documentary evidence Mr. Davis, giving evidence, said, in Janswer to the Judge, that he did not know the value of the property.
Mr. Wing—I should say from the papers in my possession that it Witness, replying to questions by this Honour, stated that he had met deceased at her cabled request in 'Seattle on December 17. He had escorted her to his' mother and grandmother. in Aurora, Minoi returning ¢o Seattle in time to take the steamer to Shanghai with he He came te Shanghai at her request, to help her to settle her Jaffairs and then escort her back to America. The will had been drawn up in Seattle, he having procured for her an attorney a week or 10 ys before sailing. He was maried on January 10 and his wife made the trip with them.
At this point in the proceedings Mr." Wing; produced a cable which hho said he had received that morning and had not been able to decode, as it was not written in one of the three principal codes used here, Tt bore the signature "Irene, the name of deceased's mother. it might, he continued, contain, some opposition to the appointment of the executor as requested. He would make every endeavour to decode it and disclose its contents to the Court, In reply to the Judge, Mr. Wing enumerated possible' properties These were Tls. 10,000 securities Jdeposited in an American bank, land and house in the French Con jecssion valued at Tls. 19,000, with the furniture perhaps Tls. 10,000 extra (Mr. Davis was now resident there), and sub-let property to the value of Tls, 20,000, Judge Purdy—1 merely wish to know the value of the transitory property to be able to determine the bond.
Mr. Wing—If the Court will only protect this furniture and moveable matter.
His Honour then stated that documents would be drawn to make Mr. Davis special administrator under bond of Tls. 10,000, Late Mr. A. B. Rosenfeld's Estate Mr, Julius Rosenfeld, son of the applied to the Court for his appointment as executor of his father's estate.
Mr. F. J, Schuhl appeared for petitioner.
There was, according: to petitioner, some Tls. 1,800 in the Hongkong Shanghai Bank and he held Tls. 600 in Columbia Club securities. The will had been executed in 1903.
Mr. Rosenfeld was appointed administrator under a bond of $500.
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