COURT OF APPEAL

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21903, 2 October 1936, Page 7

COURT OF APPEAL

1 GRANTING OF PROBATE I CONTESTED 1 (PUES3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, October 1. The Court of Appeal to-day is hearing the appeal of Robert Keith Clemon, of Auckland, and others, versus the Guardian Trust and others. The case concerns legacies totalling £950, under the will of James Joseph Burt Veale, of Auckland, which were granted the appellants in a will but not in subseauent codicils. ■ . , In the Supreme Court case at Auckland the testamentary capacity of Veale (who was 72 years of age at me time of his death, and who had made -the codicils a few months before his death) was questioned, but Mr Justice Callan granted probate of the will and both codicils.. It is agains. this granting of probate that the appeal is being lO Mr HM. Rogerson, of Auckland, for the appellants, contended that the evidence in the Supreme Court case proved that at the time the codiciL were executed the testator’s mind was poisoned and his sense of justice perverted. Counsel proceeded throughout the afternoon to deal with the evidence given iff the court below, and the court ariioumed until to-morrow.

* The ' annual report df the Research Association of British Manufacturers draws attention to the rapid development of the synthetic rubber industries, in various countries, and how once more an original British discovery is ■ being developed and extended by oti -s. The first synthetic JSSS was obtained by. * William TlWen in 1892. He was interested m the “terpenes” which are related to ..turpentine oil, and P r ®P ar a . d known as isoprene by heating turpentine. Previously isoprene had been obtained only by the destructive distillation of natural rubber.