ALLOWANCE UNDER WILL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 5

ALLOWANCE UNDER WILL.

APPLICATION FOR INCREASE. (PRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAM.} WELLINGTON, November 28. Application was made in the Supreme Court before Mr Justice Ostler lor an increase in the allowance made tinder her husband's will by Mary Mackin, widow of Dr. Patrick Mackin, of AVellington. The ground on which the application was made was that the provision i'or plaintiff's maintenance was inadequate having regard to the value of the estato and other circumstances. The value of the estate after payment of death and succession duties and other outgoings "was about £34,000. A fund of £17,000 was set aside to provide an annuity for plaintiff's -maintenance during her lifetime. Thereafter £12,000 would go to various charities, leaving £SOOO to fall into the residue. According to. an affidavit tiled by the Public Trustee, executor of tho estate, the legacies given under tho will totalled £16,000, the greater part of which was absorbed bv charities. Testator gave the residuary estato to tho Bishop" «f Down and Connor, Ireland, and other substantial benefits to the parish priest of Kilkeel, Ireland. His widow received £IOOO and furniture valued at £278, in addition to the interest in £17,000, giving her about £B-10 a year. Mr P. li. Cooke, for tho Public: Trustee, maintained that the provision was ample. liis Honour reserved liis docision.