£9,000 NOT ENOUGH
WIDOW WANTS MORE MONEY I “ADEQUATE,” SAYS JUDGE Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today. The Supreme Court today heard a Waim by Ruth Sylvia Rutherford, a Wdnor and a widow, for increased benefits from the will of her late husband, Bertie Cecil Rutherford. Plaintiff, who is 19 years of age, bad been married only nine months When her husband died. She claimed that £9,000 which she received from I* l © estate was not sufficient for her adequate maintenance. Her claim was *ased on the fact that she had been brought up with no idea of earning living, and during Tier married life ’he lived on a scale that provisions* mder the will made it impossible for her to keep up. I In dismissing the application. Mr. t\ ustlre Adams said he was satisfied ie . testator had made adequate provision for his wife. The standard of n ? ***• up by the affidavit was purely imaginary.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 809, 1 November 1929, Page 1
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