TWO WILLS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 990, 3 December 1910, Page 7

TWO WILLS.

■ -« ; THE FIGHT FOR "CHERRY BANK." i Another phase of tho Wanganui liti--1 gation the estate of tho late Mr. I J. M'Gregor caine before his Honour , Mr. Justice Chapman in Chambers yesterday morning, when Mr. A. W. Blair, for tho plaintiffs, moved for interrogatories. - Mr. Young, for the defendant, opposed the order. Tho'late Mr. J. M'Gregor was in his day a well-known figure in Wanganui, and owned the well-known Cherry Bank Estate. When ho died, explained Mr. Blair, it was discovered that a will of 1881" had benefited his uiece, Christina Boyd, to the exclusion of other members of the Ifamily. Proceedings were then taken to upset tho will, the nearer relatives alleging undue inllucnce tho part of the beneficiary. In the middle of this tho copy of an earlier will was discovered, in which tho deceased's family participated, and it was agreed to " settle upon a compromise, rather than to enter on proceedings for tho object of disproving the second will. By this compromise, counsel explained, one John M'Gregor. became trustee in the estate, with a life interest—a contentious point, for the other side (his first .family) had claimed that John M'Gregor had • purchased the property. Various phases of tho litigation have '' been made public from time to time, r and will again bo threshed out between ? the father and the family at Wanganui' j during the approaching civil sittings. Tho main contention of counsel for the 0 plaintiffs was that John M'Gregor had a life interest only in the estate, and could hot, deviso any portion of it. j Mr. Blair mwed for interrogatories on tho hist.ry of tho compromise already r referred to, tho parts of the compro- ® misoj-.and'tho parties to it. His Honour mranted the summons, a - -