ENGELS' WILL CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 226, 24 September 1929, Page 20

ENGELS' WILL CASE.

APPEAL THREATENED

NEW ZEALANDER'S PROPERTY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SAN FRANCISCO, September 4.

As anticipated, a motion for a new trial in the 200,000-dollar .will content suit of the late Gearhart H. Engels, New Zealand sheep and cattle rancher, has been entered in the Superior Court of San Francisco, California, where evidence was given recently and resulted, in Superior Judge Thomas F. Graham declining to permit the case to continue before the jury, on the ground that insufficient evidence had been presented. The-contestants sought to-prove that the late Mr. Engels was.of unsound mind, when he signed his last willjin San •Francisco, when Mr. "Andrew Gray, of, Auckland, New Zealand, his. former business associate, was made the sole beneficiary. *y ...The motion for a„,new trial of the willdispute "was entered'by attorneys representing sixteen relatives' residing in Holland, but after further-consideration Judge Graham again / dismissed the motion on the ground of insufficient evidence to.Warrant a continuation of the case'before the jury. Messrs. Birnie and Selby, who presented.tne claims of the contestants, since the,-decision of Judge. Graham to their-motion, have entered' an . appeal to a higher' court..;-.