EXTRAORDINARY WILL CASE.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 42, 14 March 1877, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY WILL CASE.

In Ireland a very extraordinary will case has just been decided. The case turned upon the testamentary compet- : eney of a Miss Mary Ana Neville, who, being possessed of property" worth about £1400 a year, bequeathed it ; equally to her cousin and a grandnephew, cutting out Mr Francis Geany, her nephew, who seems to have expected to receive the bulk of it. Mr Geany disputed the will, and alleged that his aunt had been insane. He lost his case, or rather was induced to compromise it for the small sum of £2500, because the judge was so confident that Miss Mary Ann Neville had been thoroughly fit to attend to matters of business. It is strange how ineonsistaht are the minds of insane persons* It was proved m this remarkable case that Miss Neville had worked with her own hands a banner which she herself designed to carry m the van of the hosts of Israel when she would lead them back to Iduinea. Miss Neville also employed her busy fingers to make a quantity of clothing for the babies that should rise at the first resurrection of the dead. She also told her housekeeper that there should be plenty of food ready for the rising dead, on the last day, for they would be hungry. In Court there were produced a quantity of specimen baby clothes made by Miss Neville m view of the resurrection. The trousers-' were particularly neat, but unfortunately were excessively small, measuring only five inches by three inches. Swallowtailed coats, jackets, chemises, and other articles on the same dimininutive scale were also produced. There was no doubt but that the testatrix had made these things m pious sincerity and desire to do good ; nevertheless her testamentary capacity was considered by the judge to have been overwhelmingly established, and her will was upheld. — "Timaru Herald."