NATIVE WILL CASE.
Press Association. WELLINGTON, last night, Property ’to the value of some £IOO.OQO was involved in a caso in which tho Native Appellate Court gave judgment yesterday, lb concerned the will of Wi Matora, of Hawke’s Bay, made in 1901. In addition to devises to testator’s wife and other persons, a devise was made of testator’s interest in land comprised in the Whawakanga block to Charles William Reardon. Tho deviso was subject’ to a provision that within 12 months of the granting of probate of the will Reardon should pay all tho testator’s debts. Tho first application for probate was heard by Judge Butler, but he died without giving a decision. On tho rehearing before Judge Palmer probate was refused on tho ground that circumstances attendant upon tho execution of the will were such as to cast upon it a suspicion that it was not the last £’ill of a free and capable testator. Tho appellate court to-day uphold the judgment of tho Native Land Court and dismissed tho appeal.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2125, 6 July 1907, Page 3
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