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over the estate and his father's business. It was a difficult task to inven- tory and organize the extensive estate. The assets, which consisted of both merchandise and factory goods as well as properties, were sub- stantial, but the debts were also significant. At the division of Frans Suell and Ernst Suell's estate on December 6th, 1751, it was revealed that the assets amounted to 81,478 dr 12 ore smt, including outstanding debts
of 25,000dr, and the debts amounted to the same amount as the assets. As a result, Niclas Suell had to take over the whole estate and assume responsibility for its debts, but also had the opportunity to acquire more working capital.
The day after the inheritance dispute, Niclas Suell asked and received from the magistrates a proof that he, as a result of the inheritance dis- pute held the previous day, had been granted ownership rights to all the assets of the Suell estate, both real and personal. With the support of his legal documents, Niclas Suell obtained possession of the estate's pro- perties, including numbers 353 and 354, the first auction on December 9, 1751, the second on February 17, and the third on March 16, 1752. From the time when Frans Suell became the owner of property number 353 in 1729, the old cellars on Adelgatan were used for storage of goods. The Suell family had a special cellar manager who oversaw the cellars and handled the loading and unloading of the stored goods. The old well-known business had a lively trade and employed staff in the store, warehouse and cellar. During the time that Niclas Suell owned the pro- perties, the Ulfeldt heirs reclaimed their claim to them. Of the heirs as- signed the estates Torup and Bosjokloster in 1735, the lieutenant colonel Joachim Beck, later Beck-Friis, had taken on the former estate and ma- jor Corfitz Ludvig Beck had received the latter. After Joachim Beck-Friis' death in 1741, Corfitz Ludvig inherited his large estate in Jutland and took the name Beck-Friis. It was he who, on his own and in conjunction with chamberlain Elisabeth von Zeschen's heirs, in a new petition to the Royal Majesty renewed his claim to property number 353 on Adelgatan, as well as other properties owned by Corfitz Ulfeldt in Malmo. The case was referred to Kammarkollegium and in a letter dated November 6th, 1752, this authority asked the governor Sjoblad to conduct an investi- gation and provide a report "regarding both the Ulfeldt stone house
and farms in Malmo, as well as the farms in Hyby sugar mill and the village and Bara district, which the Beck family now proposes as com- pensation for the part of the estate Stora Torup and Bosjokloster, which in the 1730 partition of Skane was allocated to the military." After the magistrates in Malmo provided their required statement in the case on February 16th, 1753, regarding the properties in Malmo, the governor referred in his reply to Kammarkollegium on May 24 of the same year to
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