INTERPRETATION OF WILL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 925, 19 March 1930, Page 11

INTERPRETATION OF WILL

CASE TAKEN TO APPEAL COURT Press Association WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Court of Appeal was engaged today in hearing a summons for the interpretation of the will of Charles Edwin Cockburn Hood Shapland, late of Glendonald, near Masterton, who died in -England in April, 1926. This summons was removed by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, to the Court of Appeal for argument, and for the answer of the Court to the following two questions:—(l) Whether the sum of £2OO bequeathed by the fifth codicil of the will of deceased in favour of Benson Cockburn Hood, a nephew of deceased now in England, means a sum of £2OO per annum, or a single sum of £200; (2) what is the effect of these words in the said fifkth codicil. “I revoke my previous will entirely with regard to my nephew, Benson Cockburn Hood, made in Masterton, New Zealand,” upon the interests bequeathed by the said will to the children of Benson Cockburn Hood. The Bench consists of the Chief Justice and Justices Herdman, Blair, Smith j and Kennedy. Counsel for the trusI tees of the will is Air. H. E. Evans; for | Benson Cockburn Hood, Mr. P. Levi: ! for various beneficiaries, Air. P. B. j Oooke; and for other beneficiaries. Mr. ; If. F. John-ston and Air. A. D. Had- ; field. j The hearing was adjourned until to^