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LIBERTY LOT MAY BE DIVIDED BY 2 HEIRSEffort Beiiiff Made Eo»\ Sale orDivision of Valuuble Corner .On Main Street*Division of two pieces oC property in Joplin is all that renmips to complete il satisfactory settJement of tlio estate of Cor mao Ferguson, according to announcement mad© yesterday following meeting of three .appraisers, named by the circUit c'ourt in a partition filed recently by the two heirs, Mrs, Anna Moore and '.Tames Ferguson, both of Joplin. Nick Tonkins ami W. ,12. Sanders are' the appraisers. ;The two properties upon which a settlement hinges are Liberty lot, Fourth and Main sfreetH, and half of a' lot and building occupied by the Joplin Hardware company, at Nbs. (523-24 Main street.Offers for Liberty Lot.Two provosal« regarding these properties aro under consideration iiy, the teirs, their attorneys and the appraisers. The first is an offer by several prominent Joplin realestate dealers to purchase Liberty lot, which has a 75-foot frontage, on Main street and is considered one of the moat! valuable properties in the city. ,.Fear has been expressed that this proposition will fall 'through as, the negotiators are unable to agree on a purchase price. Should this obstacle he surmounted, however, it is understood that a, largo building will be erdbted on the .property.A division of the property between „tbo two heirs -forms the basis ot the second proposition. The plan discussed at the meeting this morning includes dlvhting’ Liberty lot into two lots, ono with a 35-foot frontage on Main street and the other fifty Yeet. To ono heir w.ould go the fifty-foot lot on the north, with a front'on Fourth srreel’, and to the other would be given the twen? ty-flve foot lot on -lb© south, together with the Joplin .Hardware properly and a cash consideration.The meeting was adjourned at noon. Another meeting will be held Monday afternoon and it is hoped a flnai settlement will be effected at tlisit time.A division of all the other property of the t'slaio was made at a meeting held ten-..days ago. Included in the division were a number of lots and lipmp.s here and also valuable mining land.Under tho terms of the agreement Mrs. Moore will idctjive two houses and lots-near Ninth street and Pearl -avenue, a tract of land near the. Frisco railroad property on Virginia avenue, some mining laild near the Kansas-Mlasouri state lino ou /West Seventh street, and' lots in Oom-mercial, Spring Park, and Sergeant additions to the city of Joplin.Ferguson will receive three lots and brick houses near E and Main streets, • another lot on iNarth. Main street and some trackage property at t-hc west end of. Uio Broadway, viaduct. .Properties of the estate in Oklahoma and Texas are not involved in the 4 sui,f.*,..;-v. r . -u.IWh meets one o of ms fifty additi numb' posaitiA £ is tho as cosJUITOUnites yester J'anua upon churg narco go, tii restsAitl major violat ond. proa©: will b court nharg casesJo1C“Tl: a.]l,M s lin m a' few Mrs. thong Mrs. Liven were haveThe a pnJ Liver: Globe and 1 Austr, Globe far a want? the a sent iHe Mr. i them. No., S
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Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sun, Dec 17, 1922
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