WILL ON EGGSHELL
NOT ACCEPTED BY PROBATE
COURT
London. November 24
The Probate Court ruled against the egg-shell will. It found that the handwriting was Barnes’s, but that it could not be accepted as a testamentary disposition It appeared to be about as grotesque an act as was possible for anv man who was engaged in the serious undertakings of lite.
| The widow of John Barnes, ship’s pilot, said she found an egg-shell on (op of a wardrobe, after her husband's death, ami on it was written in indelible pencil: “Mag. everything I possess._J p, ” She urged that it should replace the previous will, in which she was granted £4OO. Others largely benefited in the estate which was valued nt over £5OOO Counsel submitted that the will came within the exceptions under the Wills Act nainelv, that Barnes was virtually a seaman at sea.]
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 53, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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144WILL ON EGGSHELL Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 53, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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