ENGELS'S WILL CASE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19735, 27 September 1929, Page 14

ENGELS'S WILL CASE.

APPEAL THBEATBNBD. - Vbok ovm owa coaaxsranwr.) SAN FRANCISCO, September 4. As anticipated, a motion for a new trial in the 200,000-dollar will contest sait of the late Gearhart BL Engals, New Zealand aheep and cattle rancher, has been entered in the Bnperior Govt of San Franeiseo, California, when evidence was given recently, and resulted in Superior Judge Thomas IV Graham declining to permit the case to continue before the jury on the ground that insufficient evidence had been presented by the counsel for the contestant!, who sought to prove that the late Mr I Engela was of nil sound mind when he signed his last will in Baa Franriaeo when Mr Andrew Gray, of Auckland, New Zealand, his former business associate, was made the sole beneficiary. The motion for a new trial of the will dispute was entered by attorneys representing sixteen relatives residing in Holland, but after further consideration, Jndge Graham again dismissed the motion on a ground of insufficient evidence to warrant a continuation of the cases before the juryMessrs Birnie and Selby, who presented the claims of the contestants, since the decision of Judge Graham to their motion, have entered an appeal to a higher Court.