A LEGALLY DEAD MAN.
Claims Compensatiori. Press Association—Copyright. . Sydney, May 3, A man named Keegan Iras obtained a rule from tlie Stiprenie Court to test his claim for compensation for laud resumed try Government under peculiar circumstances. Applicant was dead in law. About 15 years ago ho fell over a precipice aud his injuries affected him mentally. He wandered about Australia for 1 4 Olio years till a surgical operation re-stoi-od his faculties. It has been found that his wife, believing hinr dead, re-married and obtained letters of administration for his property aud accepted compensation from the Government for the resumption of His farm.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8803, 3 May 1907, Page 2
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104A LEGALLY DEAD MAN. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8803, 3 May 1907, Page 2
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