SACKVILLE PEERAGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 743, 16 February 1910, Page 7

SACKVILLE PEERAGE.

;7 ; |v77PETITION'DISMISSED.7'.,;'..■ :i ;,„;. ;.7;;'' -.■.''.,..'■ Londorij:; February 14.7 y.yln: thd Probate' Court Sir John Bigham; dismissed; the ■ 'of Sack;son.pf'the late;Lbrd:Sackviild' and..the; Spanish dancer .Pepita Duranj 'for. ' of.:, legitiniacy.;;;; The : reJ' sppident;,was ..'Lionel.,Edward ' Sackville;West;, the, Lord Sackville's nephew,' ~n;hp.',i B . now; in, -possession'." of 'the estates (worth,oyer•^OO^ayyear): and;peerage.. :, 'tJ l^ ''i.9 lß - Petitidner;.V:Ernest;:'Sackville'.West,. : had been.;declared-;the legitimate .eldest, son of the.:latd-Lord Sackville, his ' c^alnl ,. t ,°,', tlle Sackville peerage' and' estates would,have,ranked before that 'of-.Lionel ;fdward.;;.Sackville-West;7;the: late Lord baokville s .nephew, who is now. in-'pos-session of-the' estates' and peerage'; -Lionel Edward ..Sackville-West,,, .respondent,' .opposed the,-petitioner's claim ;l'o'r a declare- ■ tion. of, legitimacy.dri the: ground'that if petitioner s mother, Pepita' Duran, was married ,to Lord .Sackville; that marriage was .-void- by,7reasori of,'.Duron's-prior marriage .with a.iipanish; dancer, named ; Gabnel -Ohya. , TDuring.'.;the ..reading., of .thai ■. the late 'Lord Sackville'. - had' repeatedly. hold..the.; petitioner out ,as his legitimate;son. Sir John' Bigham added thathe.was satisfied as'to Pepita Durari's marriage, with the dancer OHya.] .'••'-■