GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 314, 14 June 1915, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

A WILL SET ASIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Juno 12. Mr Justice Cooper was asked to decide a novel point at Hamilton to-day. A Belgian named Conrad Veiypens, who died on August 14 last year, left a will dated August f>, in which he bequeathed the greater part of his estate to Albert Upton, a farmer at Wuimeu, and a stranger in blood. When probate was asked for several months ago, Mr Justice Cooper refused to grant it in the common form and instructed that it uc .applied for in solemn form, joining the Public Trustee 1 ". When the renewed application came before Judge Cooper, to-day, it was opposed by Mr. Napier on behalf of the nest of kin. James Cuughloy, a farmer at Woodleigh, who attested the will, said he and one John M'Kuy wore present when Veiypens signed Ihe will in his bedroom. Witness and M'Kay then withdrew to the kitchen and there attested the w.MI as there was no table in the bedroom. The partition between the two rooms would prevent the testator seeing him (Caughloy). His Honor renounced the will on the grounds of defective execution and ordered that tho costs of all parlies be , paid out of the estate, defendant under-J taking not to oppose letters of admin- / istration. ] His Honor remarked that the point j had never before been raised in New ' Zealand, and the case was a very import-' ant one. ABANDONING A CHILD. ChristcJiurcli, June 123. In the Police Court Winifred Carrick was charged with abandoning her infant at Dallington last February by placing it in a tree stump. She pleaded guilty. The Magistrate said that it appeared the child had been left in 'Ui exposed position at night where it must have died if it had not been found, it almost amounted to attempted murdei. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. '