AN UNEXPECTED FORTUNE.
Mu Eqwaud Preston, proprietor of “Robert Chamber's Index to Next of Kin,” writes to the ■European Mail as follows :—Tlic recovery of so large a sum from the Crown as £2oo,ooois, 1 believe, without precedent, and deserves a passing notice. An order for repayment out of Court was made by the ViceChancellor Malins recently under the following circumstances. ■ln December, 187.1, Mrs Maria Mangin Brown, then of ilicrtford-strcct, Mayfair, died intestate, ;leaving personality of the value of over £200,000, and with no known next of kin; consequently the. then Solicitor to the Treasury (Mr Gray, Q.C.,) took possession of her property on behalf of the Crown, and paid all expenses of administration, and her debts., Advertisements wore then, issued by the Crown solicitor to , ascertain who wore Mrs Brown’s next of kin, and fourteen persons came thereunder. Four of them (Italians) have just proved their claim to the'satisfaction of the Court, and the matter came on by petition, praying payment to the petitioner, Fillipo Thomasso Mattia Frcccia of £192,535, the balance of the above sum of £200,000, after providing for succession duty and costs. After some discussion between the counsel, the Vice-Chancellor made an order in the terms of the prayer of the petition.
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 149, 13 September 1876, Page 2
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207AN UNEXPECTED FORTUNE. Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 149, 13 September 1876, Page 2
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