NATIVE WILL CASE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9139, 7 May 1908, Page 5

NATIVE WILL CASE.

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Per Press Association. Auckland, May 7. Judge Edger gave the judgment of the Native Land Court to-day, in the Maori will case, in which Te Nare Kaihau was one of the legatees. The real contest, His Honour said, was not so much whether Kaihau was to obtain the property mentioned in the will, as whether aspersions thrown on his character in correction with the execution of the will could be cleared away. It had not been shown that the testatrix was mentally incapable of making a will, nor that'she did so under undue influence from Kaihau. His Honour hold it proved that she understood she was leaving a share of her property to Kaihau, and the will was upheld over such part of the property as passed under it.