The granddaughter of the former owner of the Route 66 town of Amboy, Calif., has filed a lawsuit in an effort to get answers about the late grandmother’s estate, reported the Redlands Daily Facts.
Amboy, which includes the famous Roy’s restaurant and motel complex, was purchased by Juan Pollo restaurant chain owner Albert Okura for $425,000 from owner Bessie Burris in 2005. Burris, the wife of longtime Amboy owner Buster Burris, died a few years later at age 91. Okura has been slowly restoring the neglected property, and reopened the cafe last year to sell gasoline and snacks.
According to the newspaper:
Dolores Marie Douthit, who is one of six of Burris’ grandchildren, filed a petition in May in San Bernardino Superior Court to get answers. Douthit used her own money for the petition and can’t afford a lawyer, she said.
“I want to know what’s been going on, where my grandmother’s personal items went,” Douthit said Thursday by telephone from Las Vegas. A trial is scheduled for April 19 in San Bernardino Superior Court. […]
Money from the estate was spent as wages to a trustee, and some of Burris’ personal items were sold at auction and given away, Douthit says. She also has questions about the sale price of Amboy.
Trustee Bonnie Barnes, who is also one of Burris’ granddaughters and is executor of the will, said everything in the estate has been reviewed and approved by an accountant and there are no issues. […]
The heirs, which include Douthit, have received a professional accounting in a timely manner of Burris’ estate, Barnes said.
This has “frivolous lawsuit” written all over it, especially if Douthit couldn’t even find a lawyer who’d work on contingency.
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