A LEGITIMATION ISSUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 9

A LEGITIMATION ISSUE.

DIVISION 07 AN ESTATE. i_r TeJerraph.—Press Association i WELLINGTON, this day. Tbe Full Court 'Sir Robert St on:, i Chief -Justice, and Justices Sim. Adam?. Eeed. and Ostler ) was engaged this i morning in he-arais an originating summons to determine an important ques- i tion under the Legitimation. Act. 1521. No names were mentioned, bnt the f let 5 are that "X" died intestate in ISS - '. leaving an estate of £12-000. He married in ISBS. being childless -when his wife died in 1900. In January. 1913. he had | an illegitimate female child, and in May. j 1915. married the mother of the child. j Three months later a seecrad child, a male, was born. The female was not ; . legitimated in tie lifetime of deceased, but legitimation was registered by thn : mother under the Legitimation Act m | 1921, after the death of the father. The Public Trustee, as administrator of the estate, is in doubt as to -whether the female child is entitled to participate equally with the male eMkL Thfi* question is important, as admie- j strm that the child was legrtiutaied sub- ; seouently to the death of the father may I have _ material effect ©f postponing the : distribution of the estate. Mr. KeHy appeared for the Public i Trustee. Mx. Hoggaid as guardian of ■ the male -__-_, and Mr. Smith _as ouardiau of the female child. - Argument "teas heard, and decision reserved.