BEQUESTS UNDER WILLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1004, 21 June 1930, Page 6

BEQUESTS UNDER WILLS

SONS SEEK. ASSISTANCE ANNUITY FOR WIDOW From Our Own Correspondent HAM IDT ON, Friday. An application was made before Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court today, under the Family Protection Act, by James Dudley Gyde, share-milker, Mercer, and Clarance Allan Gyde, labourer. Tatuanui, for provision out of the estate of their late father, William Henry Gyde. farmer, Tatuanui, who died 18 months ago. Mr. Spencer Mason appeared for the applicants, Mr. N. S. Johnson for Mrs. Elliott, a daughter of the deceased, and for the executors of the estate, and Mr. J. F. Strang for Mrs. Bocock and Mrs. Williams, two sisters of deceased, who had each been left an annuity of £IOO. Both are widows.

The two applicants were 34 and 36 years of age respectively, and both stated that they had given their father a great deal of assistance on his farm at Tatuanui, which was valued at £4,000. Clarance Gyde admitted that ho did not wish to benefit at the expense of the annuitants, and he also said he was Joins: well and was physically fit. Janies Dudley Gyde based his application on the grounds that his eyesight was defective, a statement which was supported by a doctor’s affidavit. His Honour directed that the position of the annuitants should not be disturbed. He did not think Clarance Gyde was entitled to relief, but thought that some provision should be made for James Dudley Gyde. It was left to counsel and the parties to come to an arrangement as to the amount. INCREASED ANNUITY Mrs. Ruth Garlic Bern, of Tamahere, a widow, applied for further provision out of the estate of her late husband, Joseph Bern, farmer, Tamahere. Deceased had farmed a property at Tamahere, valued at £10,600, for many years. H© had been twice married, tho only survivor of the first marriage being John Allan Bern, an adult. The survivors of the second marriage were the applicant and a son, Sidney Walter Bern, aged 16 years. The applicant was left an annuity of £l5O. Deceased had devised a portion of the farm, valued at £2,700, to J. A. Bern, and the remainder to the younger son, S. W. Bern., Counsel for the applicant said that tho parties had agreed that the widow’s annuity should bo increased to £250, and his Honour concurred in the arrangement, and made an order accord-