INTERESTING WILL CASES.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14275, 10 February 1912, Page 6

INTERESTING WILL CASES.

PATIENT'S BEQUEST TO NURSES.

(I'ItESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)

. TIMARU, February 9. At the' Supreme Court to-day two .'ntercsting will oases were heard, *n one, a widow nsked for increased maintenance allowance out of estate. She was a comparatively young woman, and had married a man over 70. The husband died eight years after marriage, and there were no children. She ha J not agreed to tho will, under which he left her a small farm valued at £750, and the much larger balance of the estate, was left to the growji-up children by the first marriage. The widow claimed that the return from the farm (£1 a week) was , insufficient. Mr Justice Deiinistou refused to make an order for a lump sum. Ho would consider whether he would make one for an annual payment, deducting the annual value of the farm In the second ca«;e. a retired farmer was treated at the Timaru Hospital, and made his will while there, providing for the payment of £10 "to ca<-h of the nurses who have attended mc in my last illness." Up to the time of making the will only two nurses had attended him, but afterwards twelve more attended him. The question for the Court was whether two or fourteen nurses were entitled to £10 each. The Judge will give a considered judgment.