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- Title: Bell V. Bell
- Author : Arizona Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 18, 1934
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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LOCKWOOD, J. William Mitchell Bell died in the county of Maricopa about the year 1914, leaving an estate consisting principally of real property, and as heirs his wife, Mary M. Bell, and three children, Mary Patricia, Madeline and Alfred Downing Bell, all at that time being minors. By the terms of his will, after certain small bequests had been paid, he left all of his interest in the community property to his wife in trust for his three children equally, their shares to be delivered to them, or their survivors, when they reached the age of 21. The wife, of course, was the absolute owner of an undivided one-half interest in the community; the children by the will thus taking a one-sixth interest each. The will was duly probated and the property distributed according to its terms in 1918. The principal asset was certain real estate situate on the corner of Central Avenue and Roosevelt Street in Phoenix, Arizona. At the death of the testator it was unencumbered, but by order of the court it had from time to time been mortgaged, until in 1928 the encumbrance was about $11,000. The carrying cost of the Central Avenue lots, including interest and taxes, in the year 1928, almost equaled the entire income thereof, because of the fact that the improvements thereon were not at all extensive, although the lots at that time were estimated to be worth about $60,000.