A BACHELOR'S WILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1925, Page 5

A BACHELOR'S WILL.

SET ASIDE BY COURT.

THE TATTON BYKES CASE. NO FORTUNE FOR ACTRESS. IBy Cab]e._p rPSB Association.—Copyright.) cUeccived 11.30 a.m.l LONDON, February 4. Set,] Pm e nt hua bp(?n reachod , n th( , lntton Sykes will case. The judge by consent pronounced against the ' 1921 wiil subject to certain payments being made, the several parties agreeing not to attempt to propound the 1010 will.—(A. and N.Z. table.)

A will made in 1021 by Harry Tatton . ykes, a bachelor member of the famous cMedmere family, leaving £(10,000 to Lilly Ansell, the actress, wan challenged by the testator's brother Cyril, on the ground that the testator'drank excessively and was incapable ol" appreciating the contents of the will. Miss Ansell's counsel said thnt owing to the inabiP.ty of her husband to keen the family she went on the stage in I9"l2. The testator immediately fell in love with her. They lived happily as man and wife. On thieve of going to the war in 1016 Harry Tatton fykes willed half of his estate to Miss Ansell, whose desire for a divorce yvith Harris was not achieved. The testator learned in 1921 that Cyril's will did not include him, so he destroyed the WIG will which provided that in the event of Miss Ansel] predeceasing testator her share would go to Cyril.