WRITTEN ON AN EGGSHELL
SEAMAN’S STRANGE WILL , JS IT VALID? Australian and N Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 23. “Mag, everything I possess J.B.’’ This was written in indelible pencil on an eggshell, and constitutes perhaps one of the strangest wills ever exhibited in the Probate Court. The window of John Barnes, ship’s pilot, said she found the eggshell on top of a wardrobe after her husband’s death. She urged that it should replace the previous will, in which she was granted £4OO. Others largely benefited in the estate, which was valued at over £.5000. Counsel submitted that the will came within the exceptions under the Wills act, namely, that Barnes was virtually a seaman at sea.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 6
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117WRITTEN ON AN EGGSHELL New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 6
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