By Our Staff Writer

Monrovia- July 20, 2022: Gand Cape Mount County senator and Founder of the Sherman and Sherman R. Fole Law firm, H. Varney G. Sherman has testified in court over a row in what is refers red to as the last Will of Seimon Grann, Chief Executive Officer of ReeLin Liberia, Incorporated.
Counselor Sherman in his testimony told the court that he does not personally know the only adopted son, Mr. Joseph Grann, of the late Seimon Grann and that it is his Law Firm, Sherman and Sherman that was instructed by the late Grann to write his last Will.

According to the case profile, upon the death of the late Sermon Grann, he adopted Joseph from childhood and financed him through High School, and upon graduation employed him with ReeLin Liberia Inc.
In 2009, Joseph Grann won the American Diversity Visa (DV) program and traveled to the United States (U.S).
According to the report, while in the U.S, Joseph and his father Mr. Grann had less communication via phone calls.
In court Cllr. Sherman denied personally knowing the only son of Mr. Grann although he has been the personal lawyer of him for over twenty years.
Cllr. Sherman who served as a witness in the case involving the disputed last Will as prepared by his Law Firm is also the lead defense counsel in the same matter at the Sixth Judicial Circuit Civil Law Court “B” in Montserrado County.

The lawyer and politician as he referred to himself during trial further admitted that lawyers and employees employed with the Sherman and Sherman Law Firm were persons contacted by the late Grann to serve as witnesses on the last Will as a testament to his last Will.
The individuals that served as witnesses on the last Will of the late Seimon Grann include Cllr. Moses C. Paygar, Manager Sherman and Sherman Law Firm, Cllr. Golda Elliot, Rebecca Parker, and Dazoe Sherman, who is said to be a son of Cllr. Varney Sherman.
According to Cllr. Sherman after the signing of the Last Will by manager Moses Paygar and lawyers of the Sherman and Sherman Law Firm, Mr. Grann then embossed the Will.

Sen. Sherman while serving as a witness in the matter said the late Grann apportion his last Will to beneficiaries according to their behavior and services to him over the years that they served him.
He named Mr. Sam Duogan, who serves as a financial manager for Reelin Liberia, Inc., Mr. Richard Jah, house boy, cook, and butler, Mr. Amos Quaye, gardener and cleaner, and Reverend Clementina Johnson, Executive Secretary to Mr. Grann.
Another beneficiary according to Cllr. Sherman as placed in the last Will of Mr. Grann, read the “person who will be my driver at the time of my death”, while another beneficiary is the Liberia Gulf Association to be used as the annual price of believing US$6000.00 per annual for ten years as the winner of the annual Seimon Grann Gulf tournament.

Cllr. Sherman further told the court that Mr. Ghassam Basma is another beneficiary, a Lebanese businessman. He said amongst all the beneficiaries he did not know them except Mr. Basma.
According to the disputed last Will of the late Grann, Basma holds the highest share although the Will allots US$200,000.00 to Basam in numbers as written, but carries in parenthesis US$400,000.00.
But when he was questioned by the defense team led by Cllr. Findley Kangar as to the anomaly in the last Will allotted to Basma, Cllr. Sherman said the money in parenthesis containing 400,000.00 was the right money for Basma because, according to experts they consulted, the figure in words is more considered than the one written in numbers.

The lawyer turned politician asserted that although the last Will of Mr. Grann gives him the power of Executor, it was the Managing Director of Sherman and Sherman, Cllr. Paygar drafted the last Will without him influencing the disposition of Mr. Seimon Grann.
But in a telephone conversation with Mr. Seimon Grann’s only son, Joseph Grann from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota U.S.A, he refuted Cllr. Sherman’s testimony added, that Cllr. Sherman fakes his father’s Will.
Mr. Joseph Grann said when his father died, he received a call from Cllr Sherman who told him that it was Mr. Sam Duogan who gave his number to him.
He said Cllr. Sherman broke the news of his father’s death but told him to not bother coming to Liberia because his father before his death had authorized him, Cllr. Sherman to bury him.
Mr. Grann Jr. said he refused but Cllr. Sherman insisted upon him to remain in the U.S and after the burial, other pertinent matters relative to the Will of his father would be settled.

He said after the burial of his father, Cllr. Sherman called him and said that after he, Cllr. Sherman asked people about his demeanor toward his father, he was informed by them that he, Joseph Grann was good to his father.
Based upon that disclosure, Joseph Grann said Cllr. Sherman told him that his father left him US$1000.00 (One Thousand United States Dollars) from his last Will.
It is upon such declaration by Cllr. Sherman who is the purported Executor of the Last Will of Mr. Seimon Grann that Joseph Grann objected to the Execution of the Will by Cllr. Sherman.

Meanwhile, the plaintiff’s subpoena witnesses including Cllr. Golda Elliot, Attorney Dazoe Sherman, and Rebecca Parker all of the Sherman and Sherman Law Firm, had testified in the matter and corroborated to Cllr. Sherman’s testimony as well as identified the purported embossed machine used by Mr. Seimon Grann as a signature tool during the signing of his last Will.
The matter continues today at the Criminal Court ‘B’ in Monrovia.