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A Big Bill For Services

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
June
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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A BIG BILL FOR SERVICES

Daughter Enters it Against Father's Estate

HER WORK FOR HIM

She Says is Worth $1,065 and She Now Demands the Amount in Probate Court

The claim of Ellen M. Flowers, of Ypsilanti, against the estate of the late Joseph Follmore, her father, for $1,065 came up for hearing in the probate court Wednesday. The contestants, who are Morton F. Case, administrator of the estate, and others, are represented by Cavanaugh & Wedemeyer, while John P. Kirk, of Ypsilanti, represented Mrs. Flowers.

The case involves some strange features. Mr. Follmore died intestate. Commissioners on claims were appointed to settle up the estate, valued at about $6,000. At that time Mrs. Flowers put in no claims, alleging afterwards that she did not know that the commissioners were looking into the property. On February 26, 1891, it is said that she led an affidavit declaring that there were no debts against the estate. Now she comes forward and asks for $1,065, which she says is due her for services in her father's house during his lifetime.

"It's an attempt, pure and simple, on the part of Mrs. Flowers," said Attorney Martin J. Cavanaugh, "to get more out of the estate than she is legally entitled to. Here she comes at this late day and asks for $1,065 for services, when she has already made affidavit that there were no debts against the property. It's strange that at the time she filed that affidavit that she had not thought of the amount she now claims."

Mrs. Flowers is still living at the old homestead in Ypsilanti with her mother. The property, however, has been sold and she is merely living at the place as a tenant.