CONTESTED WILL.
COURT RESERVES DECISION.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Wednesday,
The hearing concluded In tlie Court of Appeal yesterday of the appeal involving the estate of the late Hon. William Barnard Rhodes. The Court was asked" to determine whether the "of Mr. Rhodes' estate, under a wfll made in 1878, vested property in estate tail in the late Captain W. B. R. Rhodes Moorliouse, V.C., who was killed in action in April, 1915, and, consequently which, at his death, became vested in his only son, W. H. Rhodes Moorhouse, an infant, born in March, 1914. The case-was heard before Judges of the first and. second divisions of the Court: The Court of Appeal at the previous hearing last year decided that the interests of Captain Rhodes Moorhouse failed because he died before his mother. In the present hearing it was argued that Captain Rhodes Moorliouse's interest was vested'in him..' The Court reserved decision.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 87, 13 April 1933, Page 12
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