IS AN ARMY NURSE A SOLDIER?

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2885, 25 September 1916, Page 4

IS AN ARMY NURSE A SOLDIER?

.___—*-= ' ■■ NOVEL POINT UNDER. THE WILLS ACT. In a Loudon Court recently Mr. Justice Bargrave Dearie heard a motion to prove as the mil of "a soldier on actual military service" withurtho meaning of Section 11 of-the Wills Vet, 1537 (l *Vic. cap. 26), the -mil of Ada StsOiley, an Army -nurse, who died at Notley Hospital on December ''3 1915. Tho applicant. Miss .Ada Louise Stanley, a niece of. tho deceased, claimed to bo tho executrix according to tho tenor of "a soldier s will contained in a letter to her from Miss Ada Stanley, dated October S, 1015, .iii which Miss Ada Stanley disposed of her estate. 'Her counsel read another letter from the War Office, which show r od that Miss Ada Stanley received her orders to embark on Ootobor 5, 1910, three davs. before- she wrote- tho letter which- was now propounded as "a soldier's will." Mr. Justice Bargrave Dearie:.As she had received her orders to sail" on October 5 and actually sailed on October 10, I think that that covers the pround, and I am prepared to hold that her letter was a privileged will within Section 11 of the Wills Act, 1837. I do not quite know.'whether to regard her. as a soldier.or a sailor. She was appointed by the War Offica to servo at sea. I-shall treat her as "a soldier bomg ou actual military service." . The learned Judge accordingly granted probate of tho letter dated October 8,, 1915. to the applicant, Miss Ada Louise Stanley, as oxecntm according to the tenor. Costs of all parlies were ordered to come out of the* estate.'