A MUCH MARRIED WOMAN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10084, 3 September 1910, Page 7

A MUCH MARRIED WOMAN.

SEEKS RELIEF,

A paculiar case heard in the Supreme Court at Palmeraton North had its genesis in an origination summons made under the Family Protection Act,l9oß, and issued by a widow, Olivia Swann, 64 years of age, against her third deceased husband's executor. Ihe object was to compel the exacutor of the estate to dispose of such a portion as would provide her with a cottage to live in, and £1 per week out of the residue of the e state, payment to commence from the date of her third husband's death, eight months ago. Mr P. B. Fitzherbert appeared for the widow, and Mr I H. G. Lloyd for the three daughters of the applicant's third deceased husband. In an affidavit applicant said she was a widow, and sole tenant of her husband's estate, which she valued at £270. There was a mortgage of £IBO on the cottage she lived in at the present time. She Wished the purchase to be completed and to ba able to use it rent free for the rest of her life; £BO the balance of the estite, would keep her if paid in weekly instalments until she was entitled to the old age pension.

Olivia Swann, plaintiff, said she married her late huaband in 1907. She had been married twice before that, once to one Stcne, whom she had divorced, and before that to a man named Israelson, by whom she had a family of eleven. Eight were still living. She had sold a box of toola at.d a trap since her last husband's decease. His Honor: You had no right to do so. Continuing, witness said she had received £°.o from the Rechabite Lodge. She was not engaged to marry a man named Terry. Ber furniture was worth £7O. His Honor said he waa not satisfied that applicant was not going to marry again. He knew something of ber divorce case. An order was made to complete the purchase of the cottage, and for the payment of 10s pet week until she got the Id »«e pension, when such payment would cease.