ALLOWANCE UNDER WILL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 27 November 1930, Page 6

ALLOWANCE UNDER WILL.

* increase applied for. frltus* ASSOCIATION I'ELES^iii.'; DUNEDIN, November 20. In the Supremo Court to-day before Mr Justice Kennedy, Minnie Isabel Akhurst applied under the Family Protection Act for an increased allowance under the will of her mother, Margaret Urie Testatrix, :it the age oi -S, succeeded to an estate worth £6OOO on the death of her &on, and on her death at the ago of S3 she bequeathed tho bulk of her estiito to the Presby-teri-in Church mid the Otago Lmversitv* Council for cancer research. It =tntr-rl th.it dmntiffV income U1 her ott-n right was £144 a year, and th-it of her husband £4OO. It was made oie-u' that the only bequest attacked was that to tho University Council. Mr H- E Barrowclough. represent- • _ ti u . University Council, said that that bodv was quite prepared to help olaintiff, hut it could not juggle with money left to.it for the purposes of Tf iT l Adams, on belu.ll ol the Public Trustee, who is administering ♦ !«. rotate adopted a neutral attitude, leavnt th, <""tter entirely to the Court " lt; i:i a hlloc ' lnn K he reserved his decisic-r .