PROVIDING FOR THE ILLEGITIMATE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 881, 20 August 1910, Page 3

PROVIDING FOR THE ILLEGITIMATE.

At the Wellington Supreme Court last Wednesday, the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) gave judgment in the case in which readjustment was sought of the estate of Eawrence Arthur Robert Worthington, life insurance agent, who was killed in a motor car accident at Bulls, in October 1908. The applicant was the widow, Mrs Caroline Worthington, of Christchurch, and defendants to the originating summons were Ongley and Kelly, both of Feilding, trustees under the will. Worthington made his will on September 3*, 1907, leaving each to Kathleen Metis Worthington and Morn Worthiugton, infant children of Hermintuide Mackay, spinster of Petone. Tae remainder of the estate (which consisted in all of an insurance policy of was devised to his wife, Caroline, to whom he was married at Oamaru on September 22, 1898. There were four children of the marriage. Mrs Worthington states that she did not learn until after her husband’s death of his adultery with Miss Mackay, who had been nursery governess to the two eldest children when the family had resided in Feilding. The Chief Justice decided the point, in accordance with the opinion he had expressed at the hearing of the case. Worthington was bound to provide lor the support of his illegitimate children, as well as for those bom in wedlock. That was a moral duty cast upon him. There was no avidence that the illegitimate children could be supported from another quarter, and the application must be dismissed.