SOME SPITEFUL WILLS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 319, 9 January 1909, Page 4

SOME SPITEFUL WILLS

Unite ii number of wills i'H> e been pruned recently which have contained sfiange bequests, evidently prompted by Kpitu. Strangely enough, must oi these •vindictive wills arc dueeted agauial women. A St. Louis citizen 101 l u cJiotisand dollars to a certain party on the -mum! that he '•never forgota iavor. ien years ago, it appears, the legatee ran awav vfith the testators wile . Another will was proved oi a man who left his wife one farthing, ami directed tli.it it should be sent to .her by post iu au unstamped envelope!. IK" will was made two years bctore Ins death, and he gave as the reason loi UN action that his wile had called mm an "old pig'"' and other names. The other day a man died and tell hi. property to his daughter on condition that she paid to a certain person a sum of 3'/.d lor tile purchase ot a heiii,,L.„ cord or halter lor the use ot he dear wife of that person, expressing the hope that she make use of the same without delay. ' There is at least one case, liowevci, in which a man is concerned. One ot the uniformed ■ollicinls of a popular railway line who <Ued recently left an estate valued for probate at .C 317. In his will he made some unkind remarks agamot •■! certain pea-son, of whom he suites that '-.My estate would have been considerably larger if it had not been for my association with this perambulating human vinegar eruet and the cleyeresi known legal day-light robber. Hies'* associations lie estimated to have cost him ovu\ £4OO.