SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1928, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Juno 15

Judgment was given to-day by Mr Justice Sim in the Supreme Court, in the Public Trustee versus Batkin and another, a case concerning the will of E. C. Balkin, tobacconist, who died in 1914. He 401111(1 defendant bad not attained, aji, indefeasiblo vested interest in the estate, and would not do so until after the death of the testator’s widow. He also found that ns the testator’s married daughter died before the period of distribution, leaving issue surviving her, the interest voted in her name passed to her children. Costs to be paid out of the estate. A conclusion was reached to-day in the case in which the Public Trustee, as sole executor in the will of Hamilton Gilmer, appealed against certain assessments made by the Commissioner of Stamp Duties in respect to the Grand. Albert, the new Commercial and the Clyde Quay hotels. The Trustee objects to the assessment of £31,000 for goodwill, contending it should be set aside, as it was part of the land and buildings on which death duties amounting to £59,586, had already l>een paid. ;, Mr Justice Sim reserved judgment. A sentence of six months was imposed to-day on Joseph Pritchard, married, with one daughter, anld aged 43, who had been wilfully exposing himself to school girls for the past two months,