SYDNEY WILL CASE
QUESTION OF TESTATOR’S
CAPACITY
(Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Oct. 3. In giving judgment in a will suit in which, undue influence was alleged against the testator’s widow, Jessie Massey, of Gundaroo, Mr Justice Davidson scathingly criticised' a leading (Sydney practitioner, Doctor Chisholm Ross, whose evidence related to the testator’s testamentary capacity. The Judge, after adversely comment-, irig on the Doctor’s evidence, said:— "j; can only soy that when a man sets h'imself up as a mental specialist and acts as Dr Chisholm Rons has done in this suit, lie is nothing less than a menace to the public, and a disgrace to his profession.” The Judge dismissed the widow’s suit, asking that probate be granted to her and another, executor.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1930, Page 5
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