A DISPUTED WILL.
UNDUE INFLUENCE ALLEGED.- ■ •to Memiifc—Press-issooliUion-OoDyririt _ London/ February 18< In/tho Probate Court, Hayden 'Erskine > Starke applied for the .revocation of/ the . Wdicil of the will of Miss' Maria Mattingley, 'of Kensington, bequeathing i 7500 to" Dr. Frederick Bryan, an, (Australian, and Miss. Mattragley's grand ': nephew; ' nlso , JC7500. to .Mrs. Siarke, a passenger by the ill-fAied steamer Waratah. : >: 'Plaintiff'alleges that Bryan unduly .influenced the testatrix, who.; was : weak-' ruinded'and whose i relations reside chiefly in She died the day the Wara- *. tah:»was supposed to have foundered. A question is whether the codicil . was executed on the day the Waratah foundered, • 1 i ~'rhV;codicil also left the residue •- of . £10,(500 equally between Bryan and Starke, ft oondition being that if either predecease; .ed'.Miss:Mattmgley'tho. whole of.the resi- ' due was to go to.the.survivor.' •
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1679, 20 February 1913, Page 5
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131A DISPUTED WILL. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1679, 20 February 1913, Page 5
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