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. "If custodians of wills of the decedents, if wills there be, are present in this court, let them now come forward."
There was no hearing about Thorby's own shares; Thorby signed a receipt for certificates thereto in the judge's chambers. Neither Weemsby nor Bruder was present.
Thorby took a deep breath as Garsch and he came out of chambers. "I can hardly believe that we've won."
Garsch grinned. "Don't kid yourself. We won the first round on points. Now it begins to get expensive."
Thorby's mouth sagged. Rudbek guards moved in and started taking them through the crowd.
Garsch had not overstated it. Bruder and Weemsby sat tight, still running Rudbek & Assocs. and continued to fight. Thorby never did see his parents' proxies -- his only interest in them now was to see whether, as he suspected, the differences between the papers Bruder had prepared and those of his parents lay in the difference between "revocable" and "revocable only by mutual agreement."
But when the court got around to ordering them produced, Bruder claimed that they had been destroyed in routine clearing from files of expired instruments. He received a ten-day sentence for contempt, suspended, and that ended it.
But, while Weemsby was no longer voting the shares of Martha and Creighton Rudbek, neither was Thorby; the shares were tied up while the wills were being proved. In the meantime, Bruder and Weemsby remained officers of Rudbek & Assocs
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