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Page EigfiT E. L Roper FilesFinal AccountOf GuardianshipHearing On Final AccountHeld In ( hinook Sept.11, 15 and 16Hea(bug for i U * approval ofthe final account of Mrs. K. L.Roper as executrix of the CoronaE. Sprinkle estate, and the final account of her guardianship of Roger, Robert and DavidSprinkle, minor children of Corona E. sprinkle, was held in the Blaine county district court at Chinook on Sept. 14. If* and 1 *», before Judge John Hurly ot Glasgow, railed in to sit in the case.(Ithe mil)counts, that Mr:a1 »Vi hiu1! (I\4 U\ ' 1ftfiled by•hildrcn toboth ac!It)tail*mad«dRor I£on beingutrix. hadnon. -KUfcT *hy coronaE. SprinklJlher. Mrs.M L. Bess! I t A; % KVSThe same by a IobjInct(rn w*enis also filed Harbin ofT.os Angeles, a granddaughter ofM n (t«' rw ii(ia \■ M. L. Bessette, nronn E. Sprinkle wae a *ls-of Mrs. K, L. Roper, and the ot Charles E. Spi inkle, earlysheepman at Chinook.The proceedings showed that Mrs. sprinkle died in 1917 after her husband, Mrs. Roper being appointed executrix of the estate of Iter sister and guardian of the thep minor children: Roger, aged six, David, two and a half years, and Robert, 14 months. The proceedings showed that Mrs. Ropertook then) into her home and raised them as her own children, they in later years going by the name of Roper. Two children of her own were at that time agei two and a half and five years.At the conclusion of the hearing Friday the contention of theobjectors that the $25,000 bequest to Mrs M. C. Bessette had not been paid was dismissed by Judge Hurly on the ground thatthe objectors had failed to provesuch non-payment, Mrs. Roper onthe other hand proving payment of this amount to Mrs. Bessette.The proceedings corrected the impression that Mrs. Roper was ever an administrator of the Charles g, Sprinkle estate, it being shown that she was only the executrix of the estate of her sister. and guardian of her sister's minor children.As to the balance of the objections. concerning minor details.the court took the same under ad-vjpement. Tn the proof of the account of the guardianship it wasshown that Mrs. Roper had expended at least $3,000 in behalf of the minors from her own funds, in excess of the amount of monies sho had received on their behalf. No fees for guardianshipor for the executrix had ever been paid or asked for. Mrs. Roper at the conclusion of the heating waived all her rights in favor of the boys to any judgment she might rooei^ ugatnst them in her favor for the excess expenditure in their behalf.Attorneys for Mrs, Roper wereE. V. Ahern, Havre, and J. N. Thelen and L A. Murrills ofGreat Falls; A. F. Carney, Havre, appearing for Mrs. Roper’s bondsman. Representing the minor children were Harry Burns, Chinook, and Stanley Mltclfell, ofOregon City, Ore.I.IVtIPhII s.V! VI c! aoisthiUllt h«Flt;tinnelt;lt; 'Vilorpn
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Havre Hill County Journal
Havre, Montana, US
Sun, Sep 18, 1938
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