AN INTERESTING WILL CASE

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 October 1901, Page 4

AN INTERESTING WILL CASE

(pee press association),

New Plymouth, October 8,

At the Supreme Court to-day a case of more than usual interest was heard, being Micheli against Fookes, and was brought under “ The Testators Family Maintenance Act, 1900.’[ Mr. Weston for plaintiff, the widow of Alex Micheli, one time a resident at Stratford, applied for an order that adequate allowance be made her. Micheli went home to Austria some time since, leaving his wife at Stratford, and died in October last year. He left property worth, roughly, £2OOO, He left an unusual will, bequeathing John Taufera and Joseph Guelf (both one time resident in South Tyrol, Austria) £3OO each, “in memory of the good times they spent together in the summer of 1878 and 1879,” or, if dead, to their heirs. To bis wife he left £SOO, and the residue to his brother, Dominicus, who when last heard of resided at Boyen, South Tyrol, or if dead, to his next of kin.

Mr. Richmond represented the beneficiaires and Mr. Fookes (Stratford) defended as trustee and executor of the will. His Honor held that under the Act he had power to remodel the will and do what was just, and ordered that the widow’s portion be increased to £l,lOO, to be paid to the public trust, the income to be paid to the widow during her life, the capital amount to go to the child at its mother’s death ; or if the child predeceased before 21 the mother to have power to appoint the heir. His Honor also ordered the Taufera and Guelf legacies to be reduced to one hundred each, the testator’s brother receiving the residue, about £650; the costs of all parties to come out of the estate. The case was interesting, as the second under the Act, as the points raised in the previous one being different.. Judge Conolly expressed the view that the case might have been dealt with in Chambers.

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