A £50,000 WILL.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1915, Page 6

A £50,000 WILL.

SEQUEL IN THE COUKT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. London, July 1. Mr. Justice Evans lias commenced the "hearing of the action arising from the '£50,000 will of Thomas Curran, a member of the House of Commons, and formerly of New South Wales. The plaintill', Geoige Curran, propounds the i'.Kjo will. The defendants are the eldest sons, Thomas and James, who allege their father was not uf sound mental capacity, and ask the Court to pronounce the 1902 will valid. Plaintiff's counsel stated that Thomas, the eldest son, who also is a member of the House of Commons, married 1111 actress, and so incurred his father's anger. Later the eldest son's extravagance resulted in the sou's bankruptcy. The father's health began to fail in 100f5 owing to alcohol, but he transacted business until he was certified to be insane in April, 1010, London, July 2. Sir William Manning, giving evidence by commission, said that Curran must have been upset by his son marrying a pantomime gill. Me wrote him that "Tom has eo=-t me over £IO,OOO since he went to Oxford. lie will not get another shilling. T paid him £)0 a, -month while he was in the House of Commons. ITe also received 80s weekly from the party hinds, of which I am treasurer." George Curran gave evidence that lrKTfather was very strange after 100 S. but he never saw him .put his coat on his legs and trousers on his back. He iva j not aware that his father imagined himself a Solon or a Demosthenes.