AN UNCOMMON CASE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2747, 12 January 1882, Page 2

AN UNCOMMON CASE.

- On Tuesday, in the District Court at Christchurch, a case of a rather unusual character was tried. The > plaintiff, George Breitmeyer, sued one of the executor’s of his father's will for expenses incurred by him in maintain, ing his father during the last few months of His (the father's) life. The evidence! showed that the deceased had become he was close upon four score years of age, and unable to attend to himself. He was, however, living; with his wife, ten years his junior, who who was willing to care for him, and; who was assisted by the old man’s; daughters and their children, with the, latter of whom he delighted to play. The eldest son, the plaintiff, took upon. himself to insist upon his father’s living with him; at the same time taking the wife, who was not his mother. The wife did not long remain at her stepson’s, and when, she returned, to her house the old man wished to follow her but was not allowed. Several times he succeeded in wandering to his home, but was made to return. On his last birthday his aged partner called with a present of some cakes and apples, but was forbidden ‘to see him. She did, however, shake hands with him, and never saw him again alive. The news of his death was sent to her in what his Honor Judge Ward describes, as a “ brutal manner." The result of the action at law was a verdict for the defendants '