CLAIM FOR COMMISSION

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 166, 9 April 1921, Page 9

CLAIM FOR COMMISSION

DECLARED TO BE INVALID.

In the Supreme Court Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) delivered reserved judgnientontheno o f of motion brought by the tr « ste ® a , the estate of the late Hom R. 11 X^emai^"’the will (Sir F^ iS Srt -s asked to decide whether the trustees were entetl t_ charge commission jit the per cent, upon the moneys of the M fate, valued at about. J7O, 000. The trustees based their clalltt upon a P clause in the will tte Stated March, ®. m Tlie A wi‘ll did not,, in his Honour’s opinion, contemplate £ d bePn to commission on the sa o commlg . 2. « lto Srt - tied Land Act was left That wa ®’J n the present claim made an estoppel of the pie« wf)f . in the first notice of clear that the testate 80 id, and that the to the the particular c . o{lle o f a prohave no T e *°X! testator did not authoperty which th . tb e claim for rise to be sold, ~ • d by the will commission as authorised y was invalid- • • t cou ]d It was true Jlwt the* ]and sanction a tenant f y lat uffiler the Settled Land. Acte did not referred and the provisions. Hi the monpy to commission premia. So arising out o defendants were conto the life telia oL Admin istration sion, but the U and> moreover, made, under th > allowed when commission would only Court all the parties w ® r n e . pcin l parties not commission U p r P op erty speci'•x " *■ costs. •

mrccip.s of floas i'Ho There are 400 spceie peCH li n r Rescan be distlnguished trucks commandeered by the British Government were left so. ong in a railway siding at Swansea that the wheels rusted to the lines.