WIDOW WINS APPEAL
ALLOWANCE TO SON LARGER LEGACY OPPOSED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. f j The Court of Appeal delivered ’ j judgment to-day allowing the appeal Mof Eliza Annie Wright, Longburn, ' I widow, which was brought by her | on October 3 from an order of Mr. j Justice Ostler, made at Palmerston ! North on September 11, under the Family Protection Act, increasing the i amount payable under the will of George Francis Wright, late of Long- ! burn, farmer, to his son. Stanley j Llewellyn Wright, from £IOOO to j £2500. | The court held that, taking all the ! facts into consideration including the I value of the estate which Mr. Justice Ostler had over-estimated, it was im- ; possible to say that the testator, in | leaving his sen only £IOOO, had I failed in the moral duty he owed toj him. All questions of costs were ! reserved for further consideration. ■
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20065, 11 October 1939, Page 7
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